Sending Messages

Sending messages in MSMQ is always an asynchronous operation. When you are sure the queue is open, you can continue to send messages, never stopping to wait for a reply.

Note Each MSMQ message can have no more than 4 MB of data.

In addition to the basic asynchronous operation, you can add functionality to your send operation by using:

Message timers to control how long your messages stay in the system
Machine journals to store a copy of the messages you send
Administration queues to receive MSMQ-generated negative and positive acknowledgment messages
Response queues for application-defined response messages
Report queues for tracking

For information on…	See…
A list of all message properties	Message Properties
Reading messages from a queue	Reading Messages
C API examples of sending messages to a destination queue	Sending Messages to a Queue (using C API functions)
ActiveX code examples of sending messages to a destination queue	Sending Messages to a Queue (using ActiveX components)