Windows® CE 3.0 Application Programming

Overview of Microsoft Message Queue

Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) is a service that allows queues to be created on a computer, and for applications to write and read messages to and from the queues. Applications can access queues that are located on other computers. In the case of writing to a queue, an application can write messages to a queue located on another computer, and if the other computer is not connected, the messages are queued on the local computer. Once the computers are again connected, MSMQ automatically transfers the messages. Messages can only be read from queues on connected computers.

Any application, subject to permissions and security, can read or write messages from or to a queue. This means that a queue can be used for ...