MSMQ service not reading the queue

Question

I'm using MSMQ web service to read data from a queue and store it in database. Currently I am running the service using Visual Studio 2010 (Is this the issue?). The code snippets are below.

Contract

[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
    [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true,Action="*")]
    void DOWork(MsmqMessage<Param> p);
}

Implementation

public class Service1:IService1
{
    [OperationBehavior(TransactionScopeRequired = true, TransactionAutoComplete = true)]
    public void DoWork(Param p)
    {
        new Service1BL().DoWork(p);
    }
}

Config

<service name="NameSpace.Service1" behaviorConfiguration="MSMQServiceBehavior">
                <endpoint address="net.msmq://localhost/private/Service1" binding="netMsmqBinding" bindingConfiguration="PoisonBinding" contract="IService1"/>
                <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
            </service>

<behavior name="MSMQServiceBehavior">
    <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
    <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
   </behavior>

<netMsmqBinding>
                <binding name="PoisonBinding" receiveRetryCount="1" maxRetryCycles="5" retryCycleDelay="00:00:05" receiveErrorHandling="Fault">
                    <security mode="None"/>
                </binding>
            </netMsmqBinding>

Additional Info

I have tried with different queue names. Like .\Private$\Service1 and .\Private$\Service1.svc
- Message Queuing, Message Queuing Triggers, Net.Msmq Listner adapter and WAS services are running
- I am explicitly inserting the messages into the queue

--

MessageQueue queue = new MessageQueue(@".\private$\service1");
using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required))
{
   queue.Send(p, MessageQueueTransactionType.Single);
   queue.Close();
   scope.Complete();
}

The reason for this was, I am calling the MSMQ webservice from another web service. When I make the call to the MSMQ service, instead of inserting the messages into the queue, it was invoking the MSMQ service.

Jens H Jens H · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-15T12:16:04

Check the spelling of your queue name format.

Instead of

MessageQueue queue = new MessageQueue(@".\private$\service1");

you should instead try this:

MessageQueue queue = new MessageQueue(@"FormatName:DIRECT=OS:YOURMACHINENAME\private$\service1");

... where YOURMACHINENAME needs, of course, to be substituted with the name of the machine that holds the queue. :-)

Please note that the first part is case-sensitive.

MSMQ service not reading the queue

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