Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate integrates Windows Azure Service Bus Explorer in Service Explorer. I know the wording is a bit confusing. That’s why is the best to take a look on the next picture:
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_27869909.png)
To start working you first need to add the connection:
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The connection credentials are common Service Bus credentials like namespace, issuer name (user who is accessing the SB) and issuer key.
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_11BCB0AC.png)
Note that these data can currently be obtained on the old portal only
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_4D10166A.png)
By using of Service Bus Explorer you can manage all service Bus Artifacts. For example, if you want to create the new queue and specify all required properties:
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_7E9B83FF.png)
After that the topic appears in the tree view:
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_653380C5.png)
Even more, we can create subscriptions now:
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_4FD5CB5D.png)
The topic appears now in the tree view.
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_1D05C4E9.png)
You can also manage subscriptions:
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_34BCFC4F.png)
Note that message count is read/only. It specifies the number of messages in the subscription.
After the topic is created you can send the test message to it:
![image image](http://developers.de/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/damir_5F00_dobric/image_5F00_thumb_5F00_089FFF5E.png)
Right after that the subscription contains one message:
Which you can receive:
If this is not ok for you I would recommend Paolo’s great tool: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Explorer-f2abca5a
Posted
Jun 23 2012, 03:42 PM
by
Damir Dobric