Service Broker Programming Concepts

Service Broker introduces concepts that are unique to developing a Service Broker application. These concepts will help you build applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of Service Broker.

In This Section

Topic Description

Transactional Messaging

Explains how Service Broker messaging works with SQL Server Transactions.

Conversation Group Locks

Explains how Conversation Group locks help you easily manage concurrency.

State Management

Describes general strategies for maintaining state in a Service Broker application.

Service Broker Activation

Explains how activation helps programs to scale dynamically, and describes when and how to use activation.

Error Handling for Service Broker

Describes error handing in applications that use Service Broker.

See Also

Other Resources

Service Broker Tutorials
Introducing Service Broker

Help and Information

Getting SQL Server 2005 Assistance