If you're using MSMQ to offload work from your Web site, you have a number of ways to pick up those messages, including processing those messages as soon as they turn up. MSMQ provides a way of ...

Sometimes you can improve your application's response time by shunting some activities to offline processing -- sending an e-mail response, for instance. Here's how to use Microsoft Message Queue ...

For years, I/S organizations saw message oriented middleware, or message queuing, as a high risk solution. Today that risk is diminishing quickly. For more than two decades, companies have mostly used ...

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Messaging middleware for Windows NT from Microsoft. Code-named Falcon, and abbreviated MSMQ, it allows programs to send messages to other programs. It can be used to queue up transactions in a ...

Growing up, while other boys dreamed of being astronauts or NFL quarterbacks, one of the authors (we won’t say which) dreamed of being a message queue programmer. While the NFL quarterback gets all ...

A queue is a data structure that works on a FIFO (first in first out) basis. Items are inserted at the rear of the queue and removed from the front. The term “Enqueue” denotes the operation that ...