Windows® CE 3.0 Application Programming

Reading Messages from a Queue

Messages can be read from a queue on the same Windows CE device or on another computer. You need to have a valid network connection to the other computer to read from a remote queue. To read one or more messages from a queue, you must do the following:

• Open the queue using MQOpenQueue
• Initialize a MQMSGPROPS structure in which the message will be received
• Call MQReceiveMessage (Table 15.3) to read a message, if one is present
• Close the queue when finished reading messages by calling MQCloseQueue

The minimum properties needed to pass to MQReceiveMessage are the following:

• PROPID_M_BODY_SIZE— Property receives the number of bytes in the message body

• PROPID_M_BODY— Property receives the message body data

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