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Asked: 2026-05-14T02:42:06+00:00

I have a scenario where I need a desktop console app to communicate with

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I have a scenario where I need a desktop console app to communicate with a Windows Azure Queue… the most important thing is that the message is received by the server eventually. Also, the desktop app may be disconnected from the Internet sometimes. In the traditional WCF+MSMQ approach you’d be able to send a message which would be cached in MSMQ until MSMQ could reach the Server’s MSMQ and send the message. What’s the equivalent when Windows Azure is the server-side?

Is it possible for the same approach to be used, where MSMQ just communicates with a Windows Azure Queue rather than an MSMQ on a Windows Server?

Maybe Windows Azure Queue is the wrong approach? I have heard about something called message buffer, but don’t know what this is (yet!).

thanks for your help

Kris

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could write an MSMQ listener service that finishes moving the message to the Azure queue when the connection to the internet has been reestablished. I don’t think this would be too difficult.

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    Perhaps my answer wasnt clear. Based on the question the client is occasionally connected to the internet so you need a way to park the message until the intertubes get untangled. Using Windows the easiest way to do this is to put the message in an MSMQ local queue. YOu then have a service monitoring that queue. If there is a message and it can get to the service hosted in the cloud it sends the message. Once the message has been sent it can be deleted from the queue.

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