Over the last few days, I have been working on a solution that relies heavily on Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). This work involved migrating a BizTalk solution from BizTalk Server 2004 to BizTalk Server 2013 R2. The solution receives messages from a private queue using the MSMQ Adapter and sends them to other queues and channels. These messages are then consumed by different applications and servers.
One of my goals during this process was to perform partial tests in a simple way. I wanted to validate that all receive ports were correctly configured and able to consume the expected messages.
Microsoft Message Queuing Testing Tool is a lightweight utility that allows you to easily test sending files or messages to an MSMQ queue.
📝 One-Minute Brief
The Microsoft Message Queuing Testing Tool is a lightweight utility designed to simplify testing of MSMQ-based integrations. It allows developers and integration engineers to send test messages or files to MSMQ queues, helping validate receive port configurations and message consumption without relying on external systems or custom scripts.
Microsoft Message Queuing or MSMQ is a message queue implementation developed by Microsoft and deployed in its Windows Server operating systems and enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline. It provides guaranteed message delivery, efficient routing, security, and priority-based messaging.
With this tool, you can easily send messages to a queue in order to evaluate whether other applications are reading the messages correctly.
This tool allows you to set:
- The queue where you want to send the files/messages
- A Label associated with the file/message
- The Queue transaction type
- Import an existing file or manually add a message
And it will provide:
- a success of delivery information (with transaction id)
- or error detail information
I like simple tools that let me to test my integration scenarios/projects, so I decided today to take some time to create these very basic tools. At least for me, they will be very useful.
Hope you enjoy it also.
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You can download this tool from GitHub:
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