Microsoft is retiring several legacy Azure Service Bus SDK libraries and the SBMP protocol on September 30, 2026. For users of QueueExplorer v5 Since version 5.0.66 (February 2026), QueueExplorer fully supports the latest official Azure Service Bus SDK. The new SDK is user when the transport type is configured as: It is also used when […]
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QueueExplorer now runs on Mac and Linux
For a long time, QueueExplorer has been a Windows-only application. That made sense when it was originally built for MSMQ, but over the years the world moved from Windows quite a bit. We added support for multiplatform queueing systems like RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ, but QueueExplorer itself needed Windows, or at least a Wine under Linux, […]
Developer’s perspective – Azure Service Bus for MSMQ users, Part 5
For the last part of this short series, let’s take a glance at some high-level differences between Azure Service Bus and MSMQ from developer’s point of view. We can’t cover much in a single blog post and, so let’s just mention few things to get you started. Story of two APIs Actually, Azure Service Bus has […]
More about messages – Azure Service Bus for MSMQ users, Part 4
Let’s talk a bit more about Azure Service Bus messages and what’s different compared to MSMQ. For start, there are mechanisms to hide messages and delay their processing. This is available both in queues and topics/subscriptions. Deferred messages If a message shouldn’t be processed immediately but shouldn’t be deleted for good either, you can defer it. While message is […]
More about queues – Azure Service Bus for MSMQ users, Part 3
Special subqueues Each Azure Service Bus queue has several subqueues. There’s no possibility to create your own custom subqueue like you can in MSMQ. Also, there’s no journal like we have in MSMQ to keep all received messages (if turned on). There are no outgoing nor 3 system MSMQ queues. Let’s see what we do have. […]
Topics and subscriptions – Azure Service Bus for MSMQ users, Part 2
Topics and their subscriptions represent publish-subscribe (pub-sub) messaging pattern. If you’re coming from MSMQ, that’s a new concept. What’s the difference to plain old queue? Simplest scenario for a queue (and arguably most common one) is – single sender and single receiver: Of course, we could have multiple senders, but that doesn’t create problems unless we want to […]
Introduction to Azure Service Bus for MSMQ users, Part 1
This series of blog posts is intended for those who already have some MSMQ experience and would like to know more about Azure Service Bus. It’s based on my own experiences when I learned about Azure, what was familiar and what not, and what looked familiar but surprised me in one way or the other. Since […]
Beta Azure Service Bus support in QueueExplorer
We’ve been working on Azure Service Bus support for QueueExplorer for a while, fought hard with its API not suited for our needs, but finally, it’s ready for beta testing. You can check it here: www.cogin.com/QueueExplorer/prerelease/ Why should you try QueueExplorer if you’re working with Azure Service Bus? QueueExplorer is explorer-like tool, which gives you insight […]