What is Messaging system in c# ?

Ravi Kiran Chanduri

Hi techies,

I am not familiar with the topic which I am going to ask below. So, please bear with my way of explanation in the requirement.

My question here is to understand a technology wing of C#. That is Messaging.

I wanted to know the term "Messaging " in c# and where we have to use it and how to use it.

few samples 3rd party/ self messaging Technologies for C# I heard: MSMQ, NetMQ, Akka.net

My understanding of messaging is: Pass the messages of action to the desired destination using various techniques.

But I don't know how this will be used in the real time scenario.

So I am expecting the answer to the following.

What is the messaging technology and why we have to use it and any sample use case (real-time)?

what are the best messaging technologies used for it to develop in C#?

A sample application to understand the technology.

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Mageshwaran R6y ago
Hi,
Can you check with the below link:
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/message-queuing-using-C-Sharp/
Jaish Mathews8y ago
One most common use case is that messaging systems allowing different technologies to communicate as part of a single system i.e. Mainframe system commnicate with a .NET application. E.g. Existing Mainframe system produce some text messages which need to process in a .NET application, which is still to develop. So mainframe will put a text/xml data in the message queue and .NET application read it and process it. So messaging technology here working as a broker between 2 participating systems, which are based on different technologies. Messaging systems using "Queues" to store messages. You will create and read "Queues" to handle messages.

MSMQ is the built-in messaging system along with WIndows, which can be installed as part of windows optional components, same way like IIS installation.

You use C# MSMQ client APIs to communicate with MSMQ.To work with MSMQ, you would need to include the System.Messaging namespace. Here see one sample, https://www.infoworld.com/article/3060115/application-development/how-to-work-with-msmq-in-c.html