How do I handle message failure in MSMQ bindings for WCF

Question

I have create a WCF service and am utilising netMsmqBinding binding.

This is a simple service that passes a Dto to my service method and does not expect a response. T

Answer 1

I think with MSMQ (avaiable only on Vista) you might be able to to do like this:

WCF will immediately retry for ReceiveRetryCount times after the first call failure. After the batch has failed the message is moved to the retry queue. After a delay of RetryCycleDelay minute, the message moved from the retry queue to the endpoint queue and the batch is retried. This will be repeated MaxRetryCycle time. If all that fails the message is handled according to receiveErrorHandling which can be move (to poison queue), reject, drop or fault

By the way a good text about WCF and MSMQ is the chapther 9 of Progammig WCF book from Juval Lowy