MSMQ
MSMQ (also known as "Microsoft Message Queuing") is a messaging protocol implemented by Microsoft that allows applications to communicate across systems that are temporary offline.
Advantages
- It's free and integrated into Windows
- Good integration with .NET framework
- The messages can be kept on hard-disk, so they won’t be lost
- It has monitoring capabilities
- It has transactional queues
- The .NET API provides straight forward implementation
Disadvantages
- Can be used only by Windows users
- Doesn't have native support for Java Message System
- Poison messages will sometimes appear when doing transactional queues
- Can't manage remote queues
Components
- MSMQApplication
- MSMQCollection
- MSMQCoordinatedTransactionDispenser
- MSMQDestination
- MSMQEvent
- MSMQManagement
- MSMQMessage
- MSMQOutgoingQueueManagement
- MSMQQuery
- MSMQQueue
- MSMQQueueInfo
- MSMQQueueInfos
- MSMQQueueManagement
- MSMQTransaction
- MSMQTransactionDispenser
Development tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
Versions
- MSMQ 1.0
- MSMQ 2.0
- MSMQ 3.0
- MSMQ 4.0
- MSMQ 5.0
- MSMQ 6.0
- MSMQ 6.3