See all queue Count in visual studio

Question

Hi everyone
Under server explorer/windows azure/storage/queues when I open the queue, it tells me and shows me 32 messages of 136 messages. How can I view all 136 messages in the queue. If I scroll all the way down it only shows me 32 messages.  
I am learning and new to it, would really appreciate your help with this, what is the best way to see all the messages in the queue and to see them in the order that the messages are been taken out.
Thanks much
-Sarah

Answer 1

Hi Sarah,
Scheduled messages are messages where you actually set the property ScheduledEnqueueTimeUTC to a DateTime in the future. The message then resides within the queue and will automatically become active when the set time is reached. If you would like to send
a message but would like to delay the delivery for some time you can set that property and send the message to the queue knowing that it will be delivered later. Unit it is active it counts as a scheduled message.
When creating a queue you can set a checkbox for the following setting "Move expired messages to dead letter queue" as well as configure "Maximum Delivery Count".
If the maximum delivery count has been reached, the message will automatically moved to the dead letter (sub)queue...meaning the following (example):
If you dequeue a message from the queue and do not complete or abandon the message it will again be available for another consumer as soon as the lock expires. Let's say you set the maximum delivery count to 3. In this case the message will automatically
be moved to the dead letter queue after 3 times/tries.
This can be very helpful if there are malformed messages in the queue, you would like to do something with the message a few times (matching stuff) or other use cases.
You can also dequeue dead letters / messages by creating a queue client with the dead letter path (which can be helpful to debug those messages):
var deadLetterPath = QueueClient.FormatDeadLetterPath(QueueName);
var client = QueueClient.CreateFromConnectionString(ConnectionString,
deadLetterPath);
Example from MS:
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/brokered-messaging-dead-22536dd8
Sadly i can't find a more detailed description from MS at the moment...but let me know if you have any more questions.
best regards
Axel