Service Broker Programming Concepts

Service Broker introduces concepts that are unique to developing a Service Broker application. These concepts will help you build applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of Service Broker.

In This Section

Topic	Description
Transactional Messaging	Explains how Service Broker messaging works with SQL Server Transactions.
Conversation Group Locks	Explains how Conversation Group locks help you easily manage concurrency.
State Management	Describes general strategies for maintaining state in a Service Broker application.
Service Broker Activation	Explains how activation helps programs to scale dynamically, and describes when and how to use activation.
Error Handling for Service Broker	Describes error handing in applications that use Service Broker.

See Also

Other Resources

Service Broker Tutorials
Introducing Service Broker

Help and Information

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