I’ve been working with NServiceBus at work lately, and it’s useful to be able to look at the messages that are landing in the queues. Unfortunately, the MMC snap-in provided by Microsoft is woefully inadequate when it comes to this task. There are some commercial tools available, but I thought I should be able to find a free tool out there somewhere with this seemingly simple functionality. I found Msmq Studio , a nice little app that enables you to do many different queue management tasks both locally and remotely. However, it doesn’t seem to work on my machine now (or any of the servers at work), though it did at one time. I need something reliably do one simple thing , so I decided to take the opportunity to experiment with WPF, a platform for which I’ve never written an app. The result is what I’ve tentatively titled ‘Queue View’: This app does one thing and one thing only – it shows, in XML format, the contents of messages in private queues on the local machine (assuming, o...
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