Messages
Messages are the raison d'être (reason for being) for everything else that is MSMQ; they represent the atomic units of information that move around an MSMQ enterprise. As it turns out, messages are simply a set of property values. This being the case, messages have a large set of properties to choose from. In general, applications are most interested in the Body property of a message. The Body property is the one property that has a clearly understood function. The Body property can be any size (up to 4MB). Several other message properties will frequently be set and examined by sophisticated applications.
Message Properties
Table 23.1 presents a list of the possible MSMQ message properties.
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