Questions tagged [servicebus]

Windows Service Bus is both an on-premises and Windows Azure hosted service. Service Bus provides brokered, durable messaging facilities with pub/sub as well as relay services connecting on-premises systems to the cloud.

Windows Service Bus is both an on-premises and Windows Azure hosted service. Service Bus provides brokered, durable messaging facilities with pub/sub as well as relay services connecting on-premises systems to the cloud.

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What is a service bus and when do I need one?

I have heard talk about the NServiceBus, but I haven't really understood what it is. They claim to be "The most popular open-source service bus for .net". What is a service bus, and when do I need one?
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nServiceBus vs Mass Transit vs Rhino Service Bus vs other?

Just doing some quick spikes into possibly using a messaging system to process files that are in a nicely decoupled work flow system. What are the pro's and cons that people have found of using each of the above frameworks? What are the advantages…
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Message bus vs. Service bus vs. Event hub vs Event grid

I'm learning the messaging system and got confused by those terminology. All the messaging system below provides loose coupling between services with different sets of features. queue - FIFO, pulling mechanism, 1 consumer each queue but any number…
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.net service bus recommendations?

We are in need of a distributed architecture messaging system/service bus with the capability of Publish/Subscribe. Does anyone have any reccomendations for a framework that we can use for .net applications?
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NServiceBus vs Windows ServiceBus

Would someone be able to shed some light on the differences between the newly release Windows ServiceBus (on premise, not Azure) and NServiceBus? Looking for a detailed answer what the windows SB may be missing as I'm familiar what NSErviceBus can…
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Azure Service Bus vs RabbitMQ for Enterprise applications

I need to decide between Azure Service Bus and RabbitMQ (Deployed on Azure) for an enterprise level application and my major use will be of topics (with durable storage). I see that service bus has more features as compared to RabbitMQ like Retries…
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View content of an Azure Service Bus queue

I would like to see the messages (and their content) that are currently sitting in a queue waiting to be delivered. Does such a tool exist? Or should I write my own solution for this?
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What does Windows Service Bus add to MSMQ?

I'd like to make an informed choice towards a simple publish/subscribe architecture. So I'm wondering: what does the Service Bus add that MSMQ can't do? What are the drawbacks of the Service Bus? Thx for enlightening me!
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What's the proper way to abandon an Azure SB Message so that it becomes visible again in the future in a way I can control?

So the scenario is that I'm using an SB queue to throttle outgoing callbacks to other services. One of the standard problems with calling back to other services is that they may be down for uncontrollable amounts of time. Assuming I detect that the…
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Is Service Bus for Windows Server dead

We are currently using it for development, however the last release was Service Bus 1.1 over two years ago. Should Service Bus for Windows Server be avoided?
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Enterprise Service Bus, .NET Service Bus, NServiceBus and the wheels on the bus

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), .NET Service Bus (Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus), NServiceBus, RhinoServiceBus, MassTransit and so on. I'm trying to understand what each of these technologies have in common or not in common. I attended Juval…
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What is a servicebus?

I've read about nservicebus countless times on the net, but still don't get what a service bus is. All I think is it is a way for very disparate systems to talk to each other? In which case, I don't see why it is any better than WCF? I've seen the…
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C# Queue or ServiceBus with no dependencies?

Is there a product (ideally open source, but not necessary), that would enable a zero dependency deployment? every service bus or queue library I've been able to find has a dependency on one of the queue apps (like msmq), or a database. I would…
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Send message directly to Subscription

Is it possible to send a message directly to a Subscription queue? Scenario: A message failed, dropped onto the deadletter, the message has been picked up manually using defer, cloned and needs to be sent to the queue it was first deadlettered on,…
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Why would you use a message based system?

What are the motivations for using a message based system? I'm seeing a lot about service buses such as NServiceBus and Mass Transit and I'm wondering what the benefits of the underlying methodology are.
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