MSMQ Message Viewer?

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I have messages in a MSMQ queue and I would like to view the full message.

I know I can write code to peek the queue, but was wondering if there is a viewer that already exists that will let me read the entire message?

score 43 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '12 at 07:33

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If you are using Visual Studio - Open Server Explorer under Servers/[Server Name] there is Message Queues folder that gives you view as well.

answered Mar 26 '12 at 07:33

Petar Vučetin

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Huh. I never thought to look here. However, maybe I'm missing something... I can see the queues, but I can't browse them or view messages. Am I doing something wrong? – Dave Ziegler Oct 01 '13 at 15:46
Also, I just got an error in VS2012 using this method that has locked me up real good... – Dave Ziegler Oct 01 '13 at 15:48
@DaveZiegler - You can Right click "Refresh", expand, then for a particular message you can view it's properties. Then when you view the properties You can see the "Body Stream" property is probably a `System.Io.MemoryStream`, and click the ellipsis to the right of that (after clicking it). It's round about but this worked for me. – user420667 Oct 28 '17 at 00:27
The interface isn't ideal, but it's great to quickly view messages. I had no idea this existed. +1 – Michael Silver Feb 07 '18 at 14:13

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 29 '16 at 18:46

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There are a few options - all I found are commercial (not terribly expensive, but not free, either):

Mqueue Viewer (free)

Mulholland Q Set

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QueueExplorer

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answered Dec 20 '10 at 17:31

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Thanks marc_s! We went with Queue Explorer. – Zaffiro Dec 21 '10 at 03:15
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Queue Explorer +1, love this tool. – msjonathan Sep 12 '12 at 09:59
MSMQ Inspector has a free standard version - http://viridissoftware.com.au/Products/MSMQInspector#editions – Paul Kohler Dec 10 '14 at 21:06
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Seems the MSMQ Studio project has ended according to the homepage. – Anttu Jan 07 '15 at 13:27
MQueue viewer didn't show any queues under private queues. Queue Explorer lists them without a problem. – garryp Nov 04 '16 at 11:20
Mqueue offers the ability to view the Extension data, which is critical for us. Many of the other viewers I've tried do not. – Michael Silver Feb 07 '18 at 14:10
The amount you pay for the OS, MS should at least add some basic management features like remove a single message! – geedubb Jan 22 '19 at 11:11

score 40 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 20 '17 at 17:20

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MSMQ QXplorer

Free. Open source.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/msmqqxplorer/

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answered May 06 '11 at 22:32

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See Daniel Halan's solution - much better. – Chris W Aug 20 '14 at 12:29
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Doesn't seem to want to run in Windows 2012 R2. – Tikhon May 19 '16 at 18:54

score 18 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 06 '11 at 21:59

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You can get to a snap-in here: Computer Management > Services and Applications > Message Queuing

According to: http://stevesmithblog.com/blog/how-can-i-view-msmq-messages-and-queues/

answered Jun 06 '11 at 21:59

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score 12 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 06 '13 at 10:33

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Service Bus MQ Manager is a free open-source tool I wrote to monitor the MSMQ in real-time for any incoming messages, it supports coloring and formatting of XML and JSON messages.

http://blog.halan.se/page/Service-Bus-MQ-Manager.aspx

answered Apr 06 '13 at 10:33

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Disclaimer: Service Bus MQ Manager is under RPL 1.5 license which makes all "Derivative works" also open source if you want to use it freely - http://opensource.org/licenses/rpl1.5.txt . – Chris W Aug 20 '14 at 06:06
Blog site seems down, code is here: https://github.com/danielHalan/ServiceBusMQManager/issues Binary still available through web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200430113948/http://blog.halan.se:80/page/Service-Bus-MQ-Manager.aspx – ENOTTY Sep 08 '21 at 02:58

Kjell-Åke Gafvelin · Answer 6 · 2023-06-12T11:51:10.947

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MSMQ Studio is an MSMQ management tool that allows you to view and send messages and manage your local and remote queues.

*** NOT AVAILABLE ANY MORE ***

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answered Jan 14 '19 at 06:42

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Seems gone, or is it available somewhere else? – Daniel Lidström May 12 '23 at 09:44
I removed it as I didn't want to support it anymore since MSMQ support has been removed from never versions of .Net. – Kjell-Åke Gafvelin Jun 12 '23 at 11:50

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