The book started out assuming the reader knew very little about MSMQ and worked up to very detailed examples. The authors take you through the various aspects of MSMQ in a logical manor. They did a very good job of explaining the different types of queues. Properties and methods were nicely explained in easy to read tables. The explained how to install and administer MSMQ before going into the usage.

The examples were very easy to follow. The authors build on the examples as they progress through the book. The examples were not too complex, which enabled the reader to easily follow them.

The authors used managed code for most of the examples. They did, however go into detail how to access the API from unmanaged code.

The next part of the book dealt with MSMQ 3.0. They explained the new features and had good examples to illustrate.

The last part of the book went into how to use MSMQ on the Pocket PC. I felt this are could have been covered in a little more detail. This are seemed to be a last minute addition to the book.

For most of the book the examples were all in C#. VB.NET examples were not used until the MSMQ 3.0 section.

Overall I found this book to be a very good starting place to get an application running. It was not so deep that the novice would get lost and not so simple to be of little use to the developer wanting to learn how to write an MSMQ application.