As far as I'm aware, MSMQ doesn't automatically dump messages to fail queues. Either way you handle it, it's only a few lines of code (Bill, Michael, and I recommend a fail queue). As far as a fail queue goes, you could simple create one named .\private$\queuename_fail
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Surviving poison messages in MSMQ is a a decent article over this exact topic, which has an example app and source code at the end.
private readonly MessageQueue _failQueue;
private readonly MessageQueue _messageQueue;
/* Other code here (cursor, peek action, run method, initialization etc) */
private void dumpToFailQueue(Message message)
{
var oldId = message.Id;
_failQueue.Send(message, MessageQueueTransactionType.Single);
// Remove the poisoned message
_messageQueue.ReceiveById(oldId);
}
private void moveToEnd(Message message)
{
var oldId = message.Id;
_messageQueue.Send(message, MessageQueueTransactionType.Single);
// Remove the poisoned message
_messageQueue.ReceiveById(oldId);
}