How to grab one MSMQ message at a time from the queue

Question

I am using Console application (C#) to read the MSMQ messages.

The following is the working code.

C# (Console Application)

static void Main(string[] args)
{
     MessageQueue[] myQueueArray = MessageQueue.GetPrivateQueuesByMachine("192.0.0.1");

                    if (myQueueArray != null)
                    {                    
                        foreach (MessageQueue mq in myQueueArray)
                        {
                            if (mq.QueueName.Contains("myqueue"))
                            {
                                myQueue = mq;
                                break;
                            }
                        }

                        if (myQueue != null)
                        {

                            Message[] messageList = myQueue.GetAllMessages();
                            if (messageList != null)
                            {                           
                                foreach (Message msg in messageList)
                                {    
                                 //doing some operation with the message
                                }    
                            }    
                        }
                     }
                 }

The above code is working perfectly.

But I want to read the MSMQ messages one by one means how do i grab one message at a time from the queue?

Answer 1

You can use MessageQueue.Receive to dequeue single message at a time, see this MSDN article . You can also use BeginReceive and ReceiveCompleted event to get the notification, see this MSDN article .

Edit

This MSDN link that has very simple sample code that helped the OP to dequeue the message from MSMQ (pointed through comment)