Message.AdministrationQueue Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Messaging

Assembly:

System.Messaging.dll

Gets or sets the queue that receives the acknowledgement messages that Message Queuing generates.

C#

[System.Messaging.MessagingDescription("MsgAdministrationQueue")]
public System.Messaging.MessageQueue AdministrationQueue { get; set; }

Property Value

MessageQueue

The MessageQueue that specifies the administration queue used for system-generated acknowledgment messages. The default is null.

Attributes

MessagingDescriptionAttribute

Exceptions

InvalidOperationException

The message queue is filtered to ignore the AdministrationQueue property.

Examples

The following code example sends and receives a message containing an order to and from a queue. It specifically requests a positive acknowledgment when the original message reaches or is retrieved from the queue.

C#

using System;
using System.Messaging;

namespace MyProject
{

    /// <summary>
    /// Provides a container class for the example.
    /// </summary>
    public class MyNewQueue
    {

        //**************************************************
        // Provides an entry point into the application.
        //		
        // This example sends and receives a message from
        // a queue.
        //**************************************************

        public static void Main()
        {
            // Create a new instance of the class.
            MyNewQueue myNewQueue = new MyNewQueue();

            // Create new queues.
            CreateQueue(".\\myQueue");
            CreateQueue(".\\myAdministrationQueue");

            // Send messages to a queue.
            myNewQueue.SendMessage();

            // Receive messages from a queue.
            string messageId = myNewQueue.ReceiveMessage();

            // Receive acknowledgment message.
            if(messageId != null)
            {
                myNewQueue.ReceiveAcknowledgment(messageId, ".\\myAdministrationQueue");
            }

            return;
        }

        //**************************************************
        // Creates a new queue.
        //**************************************************

        public static void CreateQueue(string queuePath)
        {
            try	
            {
                if(!MessageQueue.Exists(queuePath))
                {
                    MessageQueue.Create(queuePath);
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(queuePath + " already exists.");
                }
            }
            catch (MessageQueueException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
        }

        //**************************************************
        // Sends a string message to a queue.
        //**************************************************
        
        public void SendMessage()
        {

            // Connect to a queue on the local computer.
            MessageQueue myQueue = new MessageQueue(".\\myQueue");

            // Create a new message.
            Message myMessage = new Message("Original Message");

            myMessage.AdministrationQueue = new MessageQueue(".\\myAdministrationQueue");
            myMessage.AcknowledgeType = AcknowledgeTypes.PositiveReceive | AcknowledgeTypes.PositiveArrival;

            // Send the Order to the queue.
            myQueue.Send(myMessage);

            return;
        }

        //**************************************************
        // Receives a message containing an Order.
        //**************************************************
        
        public  string ReceiveMessage()
        {
            // Connect to the a queue on the local computer.
            MessageQueue myQueue = new MessageQueue(".\\myQueue");

            myQueue.MessageReadPropertyFilter.CorrelationId = true;

            // Set the formatter to indicate body contains an Order.
            myQueue.Formatter = new XmlMessageFormatter(new Type[]
                {typeof(string)});

            string returnString = null;
            
            try
            {
                // Receive and format the message.
                Message myMessage =	myQueue.Receive();

                // Display message information.
                Console.WriteLine("____________________________________________");
                Console.WriteLine("Original message information--");
                Console.WriteLine("Body: " +myMessage.Body.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Id: " + myMessage.Id.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("____________________________________________");

                returnString =  myMessage.Id;
            }
            
            catch (MessageQueueException)
            {
                // Handle Message Queuing exceptions.
            }

            // Handle invalid serialization format.
            catch (InvalidOperationException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
            
            // Catch other exceptions as necessary.

            return returnString;
        }

        //**************************************************
        // Receives a message containing an Order.
        //**************************************************
        
        public void ReceiveAcknowledgment(string messageId, string queuePath)
        {
            bool found = false;
            MessageQueue queue = new MessageQueue(queuePath);
            queue.MessageReadPropertyFilter.CorrelationId = true;
            queue.MessageReadPropertyFilter.Acknowledgment = true;

            try
            {
                while(queue.PeekByCorrelationId(messageId) != null)
                {
                    Message myAcknowledgmentMessage = queue.ReceiveByCorrelationId(messageId);
            
                    // Output acknowledgment message information. The correlation Id is identical
                    // to the id of the original message.
                    Console.WriteLine("Acknowledgment Message Information--");
                    Console.WriteLine("Correlation Id: " + myAcknowledgmentMessage.CorrelationId.ToString());
                    Console.WriteLine("Id: " + myAcknowledgmentMessage.Id.ToString());
                    Console.WriteLine("Acknowledgment Type: " + myAcknowledgmentMessage.Acknowledgment.ToString());
                    Console.WriteLine("____________________________________________");

                    found = true;
                }
            }
            catch (InvalidOperationException e)
            {
                // This exception would be thrown if there is no (further) acknowledgment message
                // with the specified correlation Id. Only output a message if there are no messages;
                // not if the loop has found at least one.
                if (!found)
                {	
                    Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
                }

                // Handle other causes of invalid operation exception.
            }
        }
    }
}

Remarks

The queue specified in the AdministrationQueue property can be any non-transactional queue. The acknowledgment messages sent to the administration queue can indicate whether the original message reached its destination queue and whether it was removed from the queue.

When the AcknowledgeType property has any value other than None, the sending application must specify the queue to use as the administration queue.

Applies to

See also

• AcknowledgeType
• Acknowledgment