Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

Learning by Example: qManager

In this example, we will create a Web-based MSMQ manager, called qManager. Users then will be capable of selecting a server on which to view queues. The queues will be exposed via a user interface designed to allow access to queue properties and actual messages. Lastly, users will be capable of accepting or rejecting—with full support for message transactions—the exposed messages.

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Of course, this is a Web-based example, and, as a result, the code is written inside ASP.NET. We used the Web Forms engine to build our forms. Longtime VB developers will appreciate this new model—we did. There is now a complete separation of code and UI, just like in Windows Forms. This made coding a lot easier (once we got used to ...