I suggest you follow these steps as it worked for me
How to: Create a queue
A CloudQueueClient object lets you get reference objects for queues. The following code creates a CloudQueueClient object. All code in this guide uses a storage connection string stored in the Azure application's service configuration. There are also other ways to create a CloudStorageAccount object. See CloudStorageAccount documentation for details.
// Retrieve storage account from connection string
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));
// Create the queue client
CloudQueueClient queueClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
Use the queueClient object to get a reference to the queue you want to use. You can create the queue if it doesn't exist.
// Retrieve a reference to a queue
CloudQueue queue = queueClient.GetQueueReference("myqueue");
// Create the queue if it doesn't already exist
queue.CreateIfNotExists();
How to: Insert a message into a queue
To insert a message into an existing queue, first create a new CloudQueueMessage. Next, call the AddMessage method. A CloudQueueMessage can be created from either a string (in UTF-8 format) or a byte array. Here is code which creates a queue (if it doesn't exist) and inserts the message 'Hello, World':
// Retrieve storage account from connection string.
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));
// Create the queue client.
CloudQueueClient queueClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
// Retrieve a reference to a queue.
CloudQueue queue = queueClient.GetQueueReference("myqueue");
// Create the queue if it doesn't already exist.
queue.CreateIfNotExists();
// Create a message and add it to the queue.
CloudQueueMessage message = new CloudQueueMessage("Hello, World");
queue.AddMessage(message);
For more details, refer this link.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-queues/
Girish Prajwal
