The Service Broker Programming section provides information about defining and developing the components that are required to create an application that uses Service Broker.

Queuing and asynchronous messaging are needed for many database applications today. Service Broker provides a new, queue-based durable messaging framework to address these needs. Using the Transact-SQL API provided by Service Broker, you can easily develop services to handle application requirements for queuing or asynchronous communications.

 In This Section

Topic	Description
Introduction to Service Broker Programming	Reviews Service Broker application development models. Also discusses developer responsibilities and development planning.
Creating Service Broker Objects	Explains how to create the Service Broker objects that are necessary to define a service.
Creating Service Broker Applications	Explains how to create applications that use Service Broker.
Service Broker Programming Samples	Reviews the sample Service Broker applications.