Using RabbitMQ in C# (III) Consuming messages from RabbitMQ

It can be found that In earlier posts, setup RabbitMQ and sending messages are a piece of cake using RabbitMQ C# client. Let’s take a further step and see how to consume messages from RabbitMQ.

Create a console application, and add below code:

public static void Main()
{
        var factory = new ConnectionFactory() { HostName = "…" };
        using (var connection = factory.CreateConnection())
        {
            using (var channel = connection.CreateModel())
            {
                //Assuming you have a queue named “whatever” created already
                var consumer = new EventingBasicConsumer(channel);
                consumer.Received += (model, ea) =>
                {
                    var body = ea.Body;
                    var message = Encoding.Default.GetString(body);
                    Console.WriteLine(" [x] Received {0}", message);
                };
                channel.BasicConsume("whatever", true, consumer);

                Console.WriteLine(" Press [enter] to exit.");
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
        }
}

That is it! Simple?