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Queue names for WAS hosted WCF service
On WCF forums, I have noticed a common issue that developers face when hosting their WCF service in...
Author: degandhi Date: 04/09/2010
Performance optimization when using MSMQ with WCF
There are a number of factors that can affect the performance of your enterprise application that...
Author: degandhi Date: 04/02/2010
Checklist for using MsmqIntegrationBinding
The MsmqIntegrationBinding allows users to create WCF applications that send and receive messages to...
Author: degandhi Date: 03/31/2010
A double negative System.Messaging exception
Message message = new Message(); message.CorrelationId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); The above code...
Author: degandhi Date: 03/23/2010
Dealing with PRIVATE= formatnames
If your MSMQ environment has AD Integration installed, you can use PUBLIC= formatnames for public...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 03/20/2010
Configuring a Remote WAS-hosted Queue
Creating a reliable service for MSMQ has been made simpler with the introduction of Windows Process...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 03/12/2010
Queue Matching Behavior in WAS
With the release of Windows Vista (and subsequently Windows Server 2008), a new way to host WCF...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 02/23/2010
WAS hosting on Windows 7
IIS 7 allows isolation of web application pools from each other by providing the ability to run...
Author: degandhi Date: 01/20/2010
MSMQ and the Windows Firewall
I was called on to assist recently in diagnosing why an MSMQ client was unable to send messages to a...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 06/15/2009
JMS and MSMQ interoperability
I have come across this question of whether JMS and MSMQ are interoperabe a number of times and so I...
Author: degandhi Date: 06/08/2009
MSMQ and WCF: Getting Started
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a powerful programming model to develop...
Author: degandhi Date: 05/31/2009
MSMQ and the Active Directory Recycle Bin
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces a new feature in Active Directory, the Active Directory Recycle...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 04/24/2009
How to count messages in a MessageQueue
There are a few different ways of getting a count of the number of messages in the MessageQueue....
Author: degandhi Date: 04/03/2009
Combining LINQ with System.Messaging
Patrick Toolis of the MSMQ test team has written a great whitepaper on using LINQ...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 02/09/2008
Another New Feature: Transactional Remote Receive
MSMQ has supported receiving messages from queues hosted on other machines ("remote receive") since...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 01/22/2008
Upcoming change in NACK behavior
Hello and welcome back from the holidays! I will get around to describing how to use...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 01/05/2008
MSMQ 4.0 Performance Counters and the NetNameForPerfCounters Registry Key
MSMQ provides several sets of performance counters which query the state of the service and other...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 12/14/2007
Determining Whether a Remote Queue Exists, Part 2A
Timeouts, acknowledgements, and deadlettering, working together, will help you deal with not just...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 12/08/2007
Be Prepared: Known Issues for Upgrading to Windows Server 2008
There are a few differences in MSMQ and IIS functionality between Windows Server 2003 (MSMQ v3.0)...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 11/30/2007
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It's a holiday weekend here. Happy Thanksgiving to all our US readers! Tune in next week for another...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 11/25/2007
Determining Whether a Remote Queue Exists, Part 1
One of the basic principles of MSMQ's design is that sender and receiver are decoupled. The sending...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 11/10/2007
A Preview of Windows Server 2008 MSMQ Clustering
A very user friendly administrator UI tool for creating, configuring and managing MSMQ Clusters...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 11/02/2007
MSMQ + System.Messaging + WCF + Free T-Shirts = One Incredible Conference
TechEd Developers 2007 is just a couple days away now and we're getting really excited to hear what...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/01/2007
The Legacy of an Old Bug
Internally, MSMQ uses the Windows-provided CryptoAPI to do all of its encryption and hashing....
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/24/2007
Automate Your MSMQ Installation
Two New Operating Systems Bring Two New, Exciting Ways to Install (or Uninstall) MSMQ This week we...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/20/2007
Unattended MSMQ installation on Windows Server 2003
Let’s say you want to install all components except Downlevel Client Support on a Windows Server...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/20/2007
Unattended MSMQ installation on Windows Vista
Edited on 4/11/2008 to corrected the build numbers in the examples. The correct build number is...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/20/2007
Unattended MSMQ installation on Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 has a nifty new command line tool called ServerManagerCmd.exe which makes...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/20/2007
Encryption and MSMQ4
Just as with authentication, the security sweep for Vista and Windows Server 2008 had an effect on...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/12/2007
Complementing MSMQ Security with WCF
An issue that frequently causes confusion for MSMQ users is that of message encryption. A message is...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/05/2007
Come See Us at TechEd Developers!
In just five weeks, we’re going to be at TechEd Developers in Barcelona and we want to see you...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 10/02/2007
Authentication and MSMQ4
As part of a general security sweep of Vista and Windows Server 2008, there was a review of the...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 09/29/2007
System.Messaging versus WCF Queuing
Should your app be using System.Messaging or WCF Queuing? We’ve all seen these kind of technology...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 09/22/2007
More MSMQ Resources
I'm not the only one writing about MSMQ. You probably know that already — you probably arrived here...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 05/25/2007
MSMQ's Major Moving Parts, part one
In MSMQ, there are two important kinds of entities. As you might expect, they are messages and...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 05/18/2007
What Is Queuing?
In the computer sense, which we're discussing here, queuing is a way to get bundles of data,...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 04/27/2007
Welcome to Motley Queüe!
Hello, and welcome to Motley Queüe! My name is James Birdsall, and I'm a member of the Microsoft...
Author: James Birdsall Date: 04/27/2007