Failing to get MSMQ WCF Window Service to function

Question

I'm trying to create a MSMQ WCF service, although I'm having troubles running the code. It fails when trying to create an instance of the service. I have MSMQ installed, and can confirm there is a private created called 'servicemodelsamples'

When running the service, I received the following error;

Service cannot be started. System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error opening the queue. Ensure that MSMQ is installed and running, the queue exists and has proper authorization to be read from. The inner exception may contain additional information. ---> System.ServiceModel.MsmqException: An error occurred while opening the queue:Unrecognized error -1072824283 (0xc00e0025). The message cannot be sent or received from the queue. Ensure that MSMQ is installed and running. Also ensure that the queue is available to open with the required access mode and authorization.

Control Service Interface and Implementation.

[ServiceContract()]
public interface IControlService
{
   [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)]
   void PricingAlert(int eventid, int marketid);
}

public class ControlService : IControlService
{
    public ControlService()
    { }

    public void PricingAlert(int eventid, int marketid)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Acknowledged");
    }
}

Service1.cs Service starting code.

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    Thread.Sleep(10000);
    string queueName = Settings.Default["queueName"].ToString();

    if (!MessageQueue.Exists(queueName))
        MessageQueue.Create(queueName, true);

    if (myServiceHost != null)
    {
        myServiceHost.Close();
    }
    myServiceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(ControlService));
    myServiceHost.Open();    // *** Code Fails Here
}

The application config;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="applicationSettings" type="System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsGroup, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" >
      <section name="ControlService.Properties.Settings" type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" />
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <netMsmqBinding>
        <binding name="netMsmqBindingConfig">
          <security mode="None">
          </security>
        </binding>
      </netMsmqBinding>
    </bindings>
    <services>
      <service name="TheControlService.ControlService" behaviorConfiguration="MSMQBindingBehaviour">
        <endpoint address="net.msmq://172.26.2.11/private/ServiceModelSamples"
                  binding="netMsmqBinding" bindingConfiguration="netMsmqBindingConfig"
                  contract="TheControlService.IControlService" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="MSMQBindingBehaviour">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpGetUrl="http://localhost:8000/Hello/" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>
  <system.diagnostics>
    <trace autoflush="true" />
    <sources>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel"
              switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing"
              propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add name="sdt"
              type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
              initializeData="controlserviceerrors.svclog"  />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
  </system.diagnostics>
  <applicationSettings>
    <ControlService.Properties.Settings>
      <setting name="queueName" serializeAs="String">
        <value>.\private$\ServiceModelSamples</value>
      </setting>
    </ControlService.Properties.Settings>
  </applicationSettings>
</configuration>

Any ideas? I suspect it might because I've based the code on an example which was a winforms application.

Last time this happened to me it actually was a security problem. In some operating systems, default permissions don't allow you to read from the queue. — JohnC
Did you find a solution for this one? I have a similar problem; running integration tests from Visual Studio works, but running them on the build server (agent is on my computer), I get the same exception message. — bigfoot
We ran into this and found a workaround by deleting and re-adding the queues. I suspect that may be a red herring, but you might try it. Also, this MSMQ FAQ mentions that it's probably an Active Directory issue. — Richard

Marjan Nikolovski Marjan Nikolovski · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-02T21:34:50

Check the user under which the Service is running. Add permission to the queues manually. If the queues have broken permissions you should reset the permissions manually in C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage\lqs using a notepad.

Failing to get MSMQ WCF Window Service to function

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