Advantages
- It’s free and integrated into Windows
- Good integration with .NET framework
- The messages can be kept on a hard drive, so they won’t be lost
- It has monitoring capabilities
- It has transactional queues
- The .NET API provides a straightforward 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
