WCF MSMQ Message Retries

Using this settings (maxRetryCycles="50", retryCycleDelay="00:01:30", receiveRetryCount="0") it will retry the message 50 times with a delay of 90 seconds between every retry.

< binding name="DasBinding"
 exactlyOnce="true"
 durable="true"
 maxRetryCycles="50"
 retryCycleDelay="00:01:30"
 receiveRetryCount="0"
...

In this page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731380.aspx) there's more information about the settings for the MSMQ binding in WCF. Here I list a few of them and their descriptions:

maxRetryCycles

An integer that indicates the number of retry cycles used by the poison-message detection feature. A message becomes a poison message when it fails all delivery attempts of all cycles. The default is 3. For more information, see MaxRetryCycles.

retryCycleDelay

A TimeSpan value that specifies the time delay between retry cycles when attempting to deliver a message that could not be delivered immediately. The value defines only the minimum wait time because actual wait time can be longer. The default value is 00:10:00. For more information, see RetryCycleDelay.

receiveRetryCount

An integer that specifies the maximum number of times the queue manager should attempt to send a message before transferring it to the retry queue. The maximum number of immediate delivery attempts. The default is 5.

Nullable int in Xml Schema

If you want to be able to submit something like

< Counter1 >0< / Counter1 >
< Counter2 / >

then you need to define the following in the XSD file:

< xs:element name="Counter1" type="xs:integer" minOccurs="0" default="0" / >
< xs:element name="Counter2" type="xs:integer" minOccurs="0" default="0" / >