SOA'izing MSMQ with WCF

Microsoft Message Queuing’s (MSMQ) integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is extremely powerful. It enables MSMQ developers to write fault-tolerant, service-oriented applications and provides a robust extensibility model developers can use to improve any system’s capabilities – including MSMQ’s. In this video and corresponding sample we'll convert a System.Messaging application into a WCF Queuing application, enable that application to overcome MSMQ’s 4mb message size limitation with a prototype chunking channel, and integrate it seamlessly with existing MSMQ applications.

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MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice

I was doing some research on Hosting my WCF Service in IIS 6. My service supports both synchronous and asynchronous behavior (using msmq).

Below is a summary of hosting options based on operating system platform and communucation protocol:

Operating Platform Protocol Hosting OptionsWindows XP/SP2 HTTP IIS 5.1 or self-host Named Pipes, TCP, MSMQ Self-hostWindows Vista HTTP, Named Pipes, TCP, MSMQ WAS or self-hostWindows Server 2003 HTTP IIS 6.0 Named Pipes, TCP, MSMQ Self-hostWindows “Longhorn” Server HTTP, Named Pipes, TCP, MSMQ IIS 7.0/WAS or self-host

MSMQ, WCF and IIS 7

I found this article that contains very good information on getting MSMQ, WCF and IIS 7 (WAS) to play nice.

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