In today’s post we're providing a sample application skeleton that may be used to play with External Activator, as well as serve as a base for writing custom activated applications. A file with source code of the application is attached to this post and you can get it by clicking here . The sample...

In the blog post Announcing Service Broker External Activator , we introduced Service Broker External Activator and showed what benefits a broker user can get from using it. In this article, we'll get you started with using external activator in four steps: · How to create a notification service ...

The Microsoft SQL Server Service Broker External Activator (EA) is distributed in the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack. It is an extension of the internal activation feature and lets you move the logic for receiving and processing service broker messages from the database engine service to an application...