Recommend Material for Message Queueing

[Stephen Barrett]

Does anyone know of any good sites or books to read up on using Windows
Message Queue with .Net? I am starting to convert a long standing
PowerBuilder server application to .Net. The current application receives
messages from client machines via TCP/IP to submit calculations to a c++
calculation engine. The number of engines that can run concurrently is
limited by hardware and configurable, so the server application queues them
up if an engine is not currently available. Once the engine is complete
processing, a message is sent back to the client app.

The "powers to be" have determined that the new version of the app will use
message queue functionality. This provides us better scalability and
stability because we can now have multiple "server" apps monitoring a queue
when they have resources available for processing.

Anyway, I am unfamiliar with Windows Message Queueu (formally MSMQ) and need
to read up on Message Queue itself as well as how .Net makes it easy to work
with.

TIA,
Stephen

 

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/msmq/default.asp

The .NET Framework has System.Messaging to deal with it. From the limited
stuff I've done with it, the managed API looks very, very nice .

Good luck,
-mike
MVP

 

[William Ryan]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/vbtskCreatingMessageQueueComponents.asp

Without naming any books, I've found that a lot of the literate out there is
information contained here, just fleshed out a little more. Read the
reviews on Amazon before buying anything....