Service Broker Programming Concepts

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

In This Section

• 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
  Discusses error handing in applications that use Service Broker.

See Also

Concepts

Service Broker Tutorials

Overview (Service Broker)