I’m happy to say that a project I’m working on, WSMQ, has announced a Beta program for the hosted version of our product. What is WSMQ you might ask? WSMQ stands for Web Service Message Queue. It’s a queue that you can access from the network using XML and web services. Thus it is cross-platform in its use (Java programs can write to a queue and .NET programs can read from it) but not in its implementation, which is 100 percent .NET and SQL Server (the XML version does not have a database dependency).

Right now we’re offering a free trial during the Beta period. Check it out and let us know what you like, what you don’t like, and what features you want added in the forums. Josh and Brendan have created code samples to get you started and a nice web-based queue management tool to get started, along with the requisite MSDN-style documentation.