How to know programmatically whether Message Queueing is enabled on the machine or not?

Question

I know that when I try to create new MessageQueue, system throws InvalidOperationException if the Message Queuing is not enabled.

But how to k

Answer 1

Answering little late, but if you are scripting fan Powershell is at your help. To get status update on numbers, use following script:

$queues = Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfFormattedData_msmq_MSMQQueue
$queues | ft -property Name,MessagesInQueue

This will show you name of queue and number of items in each queue. Hope this will help someone someday. :D