I already have a .NET Web Service that sends the message, but my company doesn't use IIS (it is a Win32 box, through). The code in c# is like this (many apologies for posting non-Perl code on this site):

[WebMethod]
public void sendMessage(string messageText)
{
   string queueName = @".\private$\myQueue";
   MessageQueue myQueue = new MessageQueue(queueName);
   myQueue.Send(messageText);
}
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Thanks again!
Anonymous Monk

Hmm, I don't seem to have a MessageQueue COM Object here, but here's my scratch at it:

use Win32::OLE;
my $myQueue = Win32::OLE->new("MessageQueue") or
   die("Create object failed! :P");
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This sets up the object for you. I don't see a way to pass args to the constructor, so you have to set the property for the target queue. Example:

$myQueue->{targetQueue} = "./" . $private . "/myQueue";
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Then to send the message it will be so:

$myQueue->Send($messageText);
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Note that these are analogs for what happens above, and you'll have to work it together like you want/need. I would have been more help if I had the MessageQueue object, but I'm sure my guesses are quite close.
Also, I'm assuming you know a little about perl or can figure it from the code at hand; declaring variables, subs and such.

hth

Later that day: <mope> nobody ever comes back to tell if it worked :P </mope>

mhoward - at - hattmoward.org

Sorry for the late reply!

Unfortunately, I get an error when creating the OLE object. Apparently the object name is wrong or there's no appropriate OLE object..

Any ideas/advice/code appreciated!

Anonymous Monk

Sorry for the delayed response!

Unfortunately, I get the error:
Create object failed! :P

I'm familiar with cgi and Perl, as well as MS technolgies, but using them together is still tricky..

As usual, any ideas/code/suggestions welcome!
Anonymous Monk.

Seeing as you already have this C# Webservice why don't you call it from your Perl program using SOAP::Lite? You may need to add the SoapRpcMethod attribute to the above method under some circumstances.

It is difficult to map the .NET System.Messaging stuff to Perl as it is a highly abstracted from the MSMQ API but there is an ActiveX interface that can be called using Win32::OLE. The following is unttested (this is a Linux Machine) but should give you a basic idea:

  use Win32::OLE;
  my $queueinfo = Win32::OLE->new('MSMQ.MSMQQueueInfo');
  $queueinfo->{pathname} = '.\private$\myQueue';
  my $queue = $queuinfo->Open(2,0);
  my $message = Win32::OLE->new('MSMQ.MSMQMessage');
  $message->{Body} = 'Whatever';
  $message->Send($queue);
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You might want to look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msmq/msmq_ref_app_81gz.asp for more on the MSMQ ActiveX interface.

/J\

Thanks both of you.

My code so far is thus:


use Win32::OLE;

my $queueinfo = Win32::OLE->new('MSMQ.MSMQQueueInfo');
$queueinfo->{pathname} = '\\myServer\private$\myQueueName';
my $queue = $queueinfo->Open(2,0);

my $myMsg = Win32::OLE->new("MSMQ.MSMQMessage") or
    die("Create message object failed! :P");
        
$myMsg->{Label} = 'myLabel';
$myMsg->{Body} = 'myBody';

$myMsg->Send($queue);
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The script doesn't die, but the message isn't delivered either. In the MS documentation, a MessageQueue object is returned from the $queueInfo->Open() call, but $myQueue of course isn't blessed in my script. Could this be part of the problem?

Thanks again,
A.M.