The Azure Service Bus transport leverages the Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus client library for .NET.
Azure Service Bus is a messaging service hosted on the Azure platform that allows for exchanging messages between various applications in a loosely coupled fashion. The service offers guaranteed message delivery and supports a range of standard protocols (e.g. REST, AMQP, WS*) and APIs such as native pub/sub, delayed delivery, and more.
Transport at a glance
| Feature | |
|---|---|
| Transactions | None, ReceiveOnly, SendsWithAtomicReceive |
| Pub/Sub | Native |
| Timeouts | Native |
| Large message bodies | with Premium tier or data bus |
| Scale-out | Competing consumer |
| Scripted Deployment | Supported using NServiceBus. |
| Installers | Optional |
The Azure Service Bus transport only supports Standard and Premium tiers of the Microsoft Azure Service Bus service. Premium tier is recommended for production environments.
Configuring an endpoint
To use Azure Service Bus as the underlying transport:
var transport = endpointConfiguration.UseTransport<AzureServiceBusTransport>();
transport.ConnectionString("Endpoint=sb://[NAMESPACE].servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=[KEYNAME];SharedAccessKey=[KEY]");
The Azure Service Bus transport requires a connection string to connect to a namespace.