xml from a message Queue serialise with WPF/c# interface

Question

I have a message Queue and I am designing a WPF interface for it. The actual message queue(MSMQ) contains information to do with trains(model trains) so i need to show their exact location in real time. From section to section, the interface needs to replicate this.

Any clues, directions? I am okay designing the animations and the message Q, but it is the synch between them that I need to do.

Answer 1

Message queueing is not a real time transport. It is very asynchronous in its nature. You have to do lots of polling to get "real time data".

You could pick any format you like, you don't even have to use XML. But if XML is your route you could define an XSD-schema and generate a C# class with xsd.exe . Or you could just define a C# class and serialize it with System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer .

But to be honest, are you sure you should use MSMQ for "real time" data?