Comments on: Getting a Clustered MSMQ Queue Length with .Net and COM http://jbablog.com/2008/06/getting-a-clustered-msmq-queue-length-with-net-and-com/ the personal blog of John BouAntoun Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Breakwell http://jbablog.com/2008/06/getting-a-clustered-msmq-queue-length-with-net-and-com/comment-page-1/#comment-94 John Breakwell Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:51:23 +0000 http://jbablog.com/?p=45#comment-94 Getting FormatNames right is one of the main stumbling blocks in MSAQ programming. If there is one thing I could change in the product it would be to scrap the PathName/Formatname mess and create something simpler. I do, though, have the advantage of hindsight here - the design goals for MSMQ in the early 90s would not be the same now as customer environments and needs have changed/evolved so much - so I can cut out the parts that I know don't work or get used. Here's a good resource for FormatName examples. MSMQQueueInfo.FormatName http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms705703(VS.85).aspx Cheers John Getting FormatNames right is one of the main stumbling blocks in MSAQ programming. If there is one thing I could change in the product it would be to scrap the PathName/Formatname mess and create something simpler.
I do, though, have the advantage of hindsight here – the design goals for MSMQ in the early 90s would not be the same now as customer environments and needs have changed/evolved so much – so I can cut out the parts that I know don’t work or get used.

Here’s a good resource for FormatName examples.
MSMQQueueInfo.FormatName
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms705703(VS.85).aspx

Cheers
John

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