Chapter 3. Getting started
This chapter guides you through the steps to set up your environment and run a simple messaging program.
3.1. Prerequisites
- You must complete the installation procedure for your environment.
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You must have an AMQP 1.0 message broker listening for connections on interface
localhostand port5672. It must have anonymous access enabled. For more information, see Starting the broker. -
You must have a queue named
amq.topic. For more information, see Creating a queue.
3.2. Running HelloWorld on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Hello World example creates a connection to the broker, sends a message containing a greeting to the amq.topic queue, and receives it back. On success, it prints the received message to the console.
Change to the <install-dir>/examples/netcoreapp3/HelloWorld-simple and use dotnet run to build and execute the program.
$ cd <install-dir>/examples/netcoreapp3/HelloWorld-simple
$ dotnet run
Hello World!3.3. Running Hello World on Microsoft Windows
The Hello World example creates a connection to the broker, sends a message containing a greeting to the amq.topic queue, and receives it back. On success, it prints the received message to the console.
Procedure
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Navigate to
<install-dir>and open theamqp.slnsolution file in Visual Studio. - Select Build Solution from the Build menu to compile the solution.
Open a command prompt window and execute the following commands to send and receive a message:
> cd <install-dir>\bin\Debug > HelloWorld-simple Hello World!
