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?

Bridgeport answered 20/12, 2010 at 16:45 Comment(0)

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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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Yanyanaton answered 20/12, 2010 at 17:31 Comment(7)

Thanks marc_s! We went with Queue Explorer. – Bridgeport 21/12, 2010 at 3:15

Queue Explorer +1, love this tool. – Kahaleel 12/9, 2012 at 9:59

MSMQ Inspector has a free standard version - viridissoftware.com.au/Products/MSMQInspector#editions – Migratory 10/12, 2014 at 21:6

Seems the MSMQ Studio project has ended according to the homepage. – Hymanhymen 7/1, 2015 at 13:27

MQueue viewer didn't show any queues under private queues. Queue Explorer lists them without a problem. – Tinytinya 4/11, 2016 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. – Rovelli 7/2, 2018 at 14:10

The amount you pay for the OS, MS should at least add some basic management features like remove a single message! – Lai 22/1, 2019 at 11:11

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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.

Decker answered 26/3, 2012 at 7:33 Comment(4)

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? – Isodiametric 1/10, 2013 at 15:46

Also, I just got an error in VS2012 using this method that has locked me up real good... – Isodiametric 1/10, 2013 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. – Calabria 28/10, 2017 at 0:27

The interface isn't ideal, but it's great to quickly view messages. I had no idea this existed. +1 – Rovelli 7/2, 2018 at 14:13

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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

alt text

QueueExplorer

alt text

Yanyanaton answered 20/12, 2010 at 17:31 Comment(7)

Thanks marc_s! We went with Queue Explorer. – Bridgeport 21/12, 2010 at 3:15

Queue Explorer +1, love this tool. – Kahaleel 12/9, 2012 at 9:59

MSMQ Inspector has a free standard version - viridissoftware.com.au/Products/MSMQInspector#editions – Migratory 10/12, 2014 at 21:6

Seems the MSMQ Studio project has ended according to the homepage. – Hymanhymen 7/1, 2015 at 13:27

MQueue viewer didn't show any queues under private queues. Queue Explorer lists them without a problem. – Tinytinya 4/11, 2016 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. – Rovelli 7/2, 2018 at 14:10

The amount you pay for the OS, MS should at least add some basic management features like remove a single message! – Lai 22/1, 2019 at 11:11

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MSMQ QXplorer

Free. Open source.

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

Seismograph answered 6/5, 2011 at 22:32 Comment(2)

See Daniel Halan's solution - much better. – Accouterment 20/8, 2014 at 12:29

Doesn't seem to want to run in Windows 2012 R2. – Fuzz 19/5, 2016 at 18:54

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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/

Mehalick answered 6/6, 2011 at 21:59 Comment(0)

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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

Sewellel answered 6/4, 2013 at 10:33 Comment(2)

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 - opensource.org/licenses/rpl1.5.txt . – Accouterment 20/8, 2014 at 6:6

Blog site seems down, code is here: github.com/danielHalan/ServiceBusMQManager/issues Binary still available through web archive: web.archive.org/web/20200430113948/http://blog.halan.se:80/page/… – Arlettearley 8/9, 2021 at 2:58

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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 ***

Adon answered 14/1, 2019 at 6:42 Comment(2)

Seems gone, or is it available somewhere else? – Divergent 12/5, 2023 at 9:44

I removed it as I didn't want to support it anymore since MSMQ support has been removed from never versions of .Net. – Afghani 12/6, 2023 at 11:50

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