Determining how many messages are on the Azure Service Bus Queue

Question

I know there is a way to determine the number of messages (or approximate number) in the Azure Queue (Store Account); however is there a way to query for the number of pending messages on an Azure Service Bus queue?

Answer 1

var nsmgr = Microsoft.ServiceBus.NamespaceManager.CreateFromConnectionString(connectionString); long count = nsmgr.GetQueue(queueName).MessageCount; 

Answer 2

It is called MessagesCountDetails.ActiveMessageCount. It returns the number of the Active Messages in the Queue. You probably have some Dead letter messages:

var msg = Microsoft.ServiceBus.NamespaceManager.CreateFromConnectionString(Settings.Default.ConnectionString); numofmessages.Text = msg.GetQueue(QueueName).MessageCountDetails.ActiveMessageCount.ToString();