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Windows Azure Service Bus - Control what actions can be made

Did you ever need or want to disable the send functionality from a queue or from a topic? All the people start to send messages to you even if you say STOP. How nice would be to be able to say STOP.
We have good news for people that use Windows Azure Service Bus (Queue, Topics and Subscriptions). With the new version of SDK (2.0), we can control the operation that can be made on Service Bus. How nice is that.
People would ask – why we would want to do something like this. Well, there are times, especially when we make tests, when we want to control this. I see this value in two situations:
When we want to make performance tests, to see how many messages we can consume from a queue in a specific time interval
When there a lot of messages in the queue or topic and we don’t want to accept new messages anymore.
This feature can be controlled from the description of the queue, topic or subscription.  Based on what kind of service we use from Service Bus we can have different status. It is important to not forger to call the UpdateQueue or UpdateTopic/UpdateSubscription after you change the service status.
The entity status of a services can have the following values:
  • EntityStatus.Disable – Sending and receiving messages is disabled
  • EntityStatus.SendDisabled – Sending is disable
  • EntityStatus.ReceiveDisabled – Receiving is disabled
  • EntityStatus.Active – Sending and receiving are active
Don’t try to use a combination of this status. All the possible combinations are supported with this 4 status.
TopicDescription topic = namespaceManager.GetTopic("fooTopic");
topic.Status = EntityStatus.SendDisabled; //can continue to de-queue
namespaceManager.UpdateQueue(topic);
This configuration can be made from the moment when you create the topic.
if (!namespaceManager.TopicExists("fooTopic"))
{
    TopicDescription topic = new TopicDescription("fooTopic");
    topic.Status = EntityStatus.SendDisabled; //can continue to de-queue
    namespaceManager.CreateTopic(topic);
}

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