Topics and their subscriptions represent publish-subscribe (pub-sub) messaging pattern. If you’re coming from MSMQ, that’s a new concept. What’s the difference to plain old queue? Simplest scenario for a queue (and arguably most common one) is – single sender and single receiver: Of course, we could have multiple senders, but that doesn’t create problems unless we want to […]
Tag: MSMQ
Introduction to Azure Service Bus for MSMQ users, Part 1
This series of blog posts is intended for those who already have some MSMQ experience and would like to know more about Azure Service Bus. It’s based on my own experiences when I learned about Azure, what was familiar and what not, and what looked familiar but surprised me in one way or the other. Since […]
QueueProxy on MSMQ cluster
Managing clustered MSMQ was always tricky, since it runs as a separate instance, i.e. more or less like a separate “virtual” computer with MSMQ installed. When you try to manage it from QueueExplorer you’ll see that there are some limitations since it’s done in remote mode, either from one of cluster nodes or from some other […]
QueueExplorer 4.0 final is available now
QueueExplorer 4, our tool for managing MSMQ and ActiveMQ, is out of Beta. What’s new in v4.0? This is the first time we put full product documentation online so that’s an easy way to check some of the features and how they can be used: QueueExplorer documentation Or just download it here: Download QueueExplorer
Automatically resend expired MSMQ dead letter messages using QueueMonitor
There were few inquires recently on what to do with messages which were moved by MSMQ to dead letter queue because they reached “Time to be received” timeout. When is Time to be received property useful? Sometimes messages are of temporary value and are not important unless they are processed immediately. For instance if we use queue […]
QueueMonitor 1.0 released
Thanks for your feedback and support during beta testing of QueueMonitor! That helped us a lot to reach v1.0. What’s new for v1.0? Apart from smaller fixes, there are two significant improvements. First one is import/export of tasks. It makes it easy to configure tasks on one server and transfer them to another one. Or to create backup before […]
QueueMonitor Beta – monitoring and automation for MSMQ
QueueMonitor Beta is here Thanks for your support during alpha testing of QueueMonitor! That helped us a lot to reach this point. We are now ready for Beta stage. What does Beta mean in our case? It means QueueMonitor passes our internal tests, doesn’t have any known issues and doesn’t consume much memory or CPU […]
QueueExplorer 3.3 – Queue views (PRO)
QueueExplorer 3.3 bring queue views for Professional edition. Queue views allow user to configure how messages are filtered, displayed, etc. on queue by queue basis. Following settings are stored: Which columns are displayed Filtering and sorting Limiting number of messages (i.e. “Top x messages”) .Net viewer assembly path Encodings for body and extension when displayed […]
QueueExplorer 3.2 – load/save project, queue picker, JSON view
What’s new in QueueExplorer 3.2: Edited message can be sent to different queue. Makes it easy to fix bad messages in subqueue or deadletter queue and send them back to their original destination. New queue picker dialog is available on places where user can edit queue path/format. JSON view – expands original JSON if minified, […]
QueueExplorer 3.1 – body can be displayed in messages list
QueueExplorer 3.1 brings one long awaited feature – message’s body can be displayed in a list as a separate column, among other message fields. With this, you can easily sort or filter by body content. Currently only text bodies are supported, in several mostly used encodings.