Messaging with RabbitMQ and .NET review part 2: installation and setup

Introduction

In the previous post we we went through a general introduction of RabbitMq and its terminology. RabbitMq is a message broker that helps to solve communication between disparate systems in a reliable and maintainable manner. It is a very fast and highly scalable open-source messaging system which by default supports the AMQP messaging protocol. We discussed the key terms exchange, binding, queue, connection and channel. We also listed the 4 exchange types which are direct, header exchange, topic and fan-out.

In this post we’ll install RabbitMq on Windows. I have Windows 10 on my laptop but the RabbitMq installation package should work equally well on other versions of Windows. The most recent version of RabbitMq at this time of writing this post is 3.6.4. There may be a later version by the time you read this.

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Messaging with RabbitMQ and .NET review part 1: foundations and terminology

Introduction

RabbitMQ is a message broker that helps to solve communication between disparate systems in a reliable and maintainable manner. There can be various platforms that need to communicate with each other: a Windows service, a Java servlet based web service, an MVC web application etc. Messaging aims to integrate these systems so that they can exchange information in a decoupled and platform independent fashion.

There have been numerous ways to solve messaging in the past: Java Messaging Service, MSMQ, IBM MQ, but they never really became widespread mostly because they are tied to a specific system, like Windows. Messaging systems based on those technologies were complex, expensive, difficult to connect to and in general difficult to work with. Also, they didn’t follow any particular messaging standard; each vendor had their own standards that the customers had to adhere to.

In this new series on RabbitMq we will revisit some concepts and techniques we discussed in the original series here. As a user commented on the original series, there have been a number of changes, extensions and new concepts in RabbitMq and its .NET client so it’s time for a review.

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