Azure - Service Bus Queue - C# Message Sender / P

In this article we will learn how to send messages to Azure Service Bus queues using C#.NET

Open Visual Studio and create a blank console C# project.

Then add “WindowsAzure.ServiceBus” from NuGet Manager.

After installing the required NuGet package, make note of the following values from the Azure Service Bus created in your subscription.

Navigate to Settings > Shared access policies

Then on the right hand side panel, copy the Primary Connection String.

Use the copied connection string for the following variable.

var connectionString = Endpoint=sb://sbus01.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=r12aot2kdUqaX6ea5r2u62ey0lPY9h0bldPzJawXyqc=";

Next copy the name of the queue.

Use the copied queue name to set the following variable.

var queueName = queue1";

For sending messages to Azure Service Bus queue, create a Windows Forms C# application targeting .NET Framework atleast version 4.6.1 and above – in order to be compatible with the Azure Service Bus NuGet package.

In this case, the windows forms had just a single button as shown below.

While the button code behind had the following code to send messages to Azure Service Bus.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging;

namespace DemoProject

{

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            var connectionString = "Endpoint=sb://sbus01.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=r12aot2kdUqaX6ea5r2u62ey0lPY9h0bldPzJawXyqc=";

            var queueName = "queue1";

            var client = QueueClient.CreateFromConnectionString(connectionString, queueName);

            var message = new BrokeredMessage("Test Message");

            client.Send(message);

        }

    }

}

Stats before sending messages.

Stats after sending a few messages. It takes a few minutes for the statistics to actually show up on the portal.

That's All!