How to Use Service Bus Queues

program.cs

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    // Reference: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-bus-dotnet-how-to-use-queues/
    // Service Bus Partitioned Queue: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Partitioned-7dfd3f1f
    // BrokeredMessage.ViaPartitionKey: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.servicebus.messaging.brokeredmessage.viapartitionkey.aspx

    const string QueueName = "TestQueue";
    string serviceBusConnStr = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("Microsoft.ServiceBus.ConnectionString");

    QueueDescription qd = new QueueDescription(QueueName);
    qd.MaxSizeInMegabytes = 5120;

    // Gets or sets the default message time to live value. This is the duration after which the message expires, starting from when the message is sent to Service Bus. This is the default value used when TimeToLive is not set on a message itself.
    // Messages older than their TimeToLive value will expire and no longer be retained in the message store. Subscribers will be unable to receive expired messages.
    // A message can have a lower TimeToLive value than that specified here, but by default TimeToLive is set to MaxValue. Therefore, this property becomes the default time to live value applied to messages.
    qd.DefaultMessageTimeToLive = TimeSpan.FromHours(1);

    NamespaceManager namespaceManager = NamespaceManager.CreateFromConnectionString(serviceBusConnStr);
    if (namespaceManager.QueueExists(QueueName) == false)
    {
        namespaceManager.CreateQueue(qd);
    }

    QueueClient queueClient = QueueClient.CreateFromConnectionString(serviceBusConnStr, QueueName);

    // Send

    BrokeredMessage message = new BrokeredMessage("My message");
    message.Properties["RandomGuid"] = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    queueClient.Send(message);

    // Receive

    // Receive actually waits if there is no available message to receive inside the queue.
    BrokeredMessage receivedMessage = queueClient.Receive();
    receivedMessage.Abandon();
}