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Writing to an Azure Queue

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If you've seen my previous post then this post is quite similar, this time however I write to an Azure Queue and not to a blob.

Code

First of all you need an Azure storage account as before, but once this is set up, consider the following code…

What I’m doing in the code above is

  1. Connecting to my storage account
  2. Creating the queue if it doesn't exist (remember you’ll get a bad request if you don’t name the queue correctly!).
  3. Then I create a simple message, I’m using a POCO object from another project and serializing it to JSON.

Did it work?

Let’s use VS2013 U3 to check!

Open your server explorer and select the queue under the storage account you’ve chosen in your connection string, double click.

Above you see the message added to the queue, you can see how many times it was de-queued and when it’s set to expire. If we use a competing consumer pattern that count may be more than 1!

Next

I’m a little torn re my next post, I’ve been writing a post on C# expression trees which is nearing completion, however I think to keep in line with the current trend I’ll post how this queue can be read and fed to an Azure Service Bus topic (pub/sub)… stay tuned ;-)