What is Azure Storage Queue and how to Create Azure Storage Queue message using C# console application.

Azure Storage Queue is a component of Azure Storage Account which is used for messaging service. 

We can Add message to a Queue and also dequeue (Delete) the message. When dequeue a message then the dequeue count will get increased.

Generally adding and queue message and deleting a queue message has been done by programmatically. So, my intention is to demonstrate a simple CRUD operation on queue message using C# console app.
Step 1: Create a C# console app. (I will use Visual Studio 2022).
Step 2: Use NuGet Package Manager and download “Azure.Storage.Queues”.

Step 3: Get the connection string first. To get the connection details 1st we have to go to the storage account and then Access key section. Remember the connection string is a part of azure storage account.

Get the queue name which you have just created. In my case the queue name is “lazylearnerqueue”.

Step 4: Now we are ready with our console app and we can start the Create operation.

• We need to create a connection using the above mention connection string and queue name.
• Add “using Azure.Storage.Queues;” reference to the code.
• Use “QueueClient” to create the connection.
  
  
  

Following is the code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Azure.Storage.Queues;

namespace AzureStorageQueueCRUDApp

{

    internal class AzureStorageQueueCRUDApp

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //Get the connection string from azure storage account Access Key

            string AzureStorageQueueConnection ="*************";

            string QueueName = "lazylearnerqueue";

            createQueueMessage("Test Message 1", QueueName, AzureStorageQueueConnection);

        }

        static void createQueueMessage(string queueMessageBody, string QueueName, string AzureStorageQueueConnection)

        {

            //Create a connection. 

            QueueClient queueClient = new QueueClient(AzureStorageQueueConnection, QueueName);

            if(queueClient.Exists())

            {

                queueClient.SendMessage(queueMessageBody);

                Console.WriteLine(queueMessageBody);

            }

        }

    }

}

We create a .Net object as a Message:

• We need to transfer a .net object to a JSON string and then we can send it to the Queue.
• We can create a class in our project.
  
  
  

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Text.Json;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Azure.Storage.Queues;

namespace AzureStorageQueueCRUDApp

{

public class ModelObject

{

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public string Description { get; set; }

    public string Type { get; set; }

}

internal class AzureStorageQueueCRUDApp

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //Get the connection string from azure storage account Access Key

            string AzureStorageQueueConnection = "***********";

            string QueueName = "lazylearnerqueue";

            createQueueMessageUsingObject(new ModelObject() { Description = "Description Detail",Name="Name details",Type = "Type Details"}, QueueName, AzureStorageQueueConnection);

        }

        static void createQueueMessageUsingObject(ModelObject queueMessageBody, string QueueName, string AzureStorageQueueConnection)

        {

            //Create a connection. 

            QueueClient queueClient = new QueueClient(AzureStorageQueueConnection, QueueName);

            if (queueClient.Exists())

            {

                var SerializeModelObject = JsonSerializer.Serialize(queueMessageBody);

                queueClient.SendMessage(SerializeModelObject);

                Console.WriteLine("Message is created");

                Console.ReadLine();

            }

        }

    }

}