On premise NServicebus applicaton receiving messages from Azure ServiceBus queue

Question

I am currently struggling to get something up and running on an nServiceBus hosted application. I have an azure ServiceBus queue that a 3rd party is posting messages to and I want my application (which is hosted locally at the moment) to receive these messages.

I have googled for answers on how to configure the endpoint but I have had no luck in a valid config. Has anyone ever done this as I can find examples of how to connect to Azure storage queues but NOT servicebus queue. (I need azure servicebus queues for other reasons)

The config I have is as below

public void Init()
    {
        Configure.With()
           .DefaultBuilder()
           .XmlSerializer()
           .UnicastBus()
           .AzureServiceBusMessageQueue()
           .IsTransactional(true)
           .MessageForwardingInCaseOfFault()
           .UseInMemoryTimeoutPersister()
           .InMemorySubscriptionStorage();
    }

. Message=Exception when starting endpoint, error has been logged. Reason: Input queue [mytimeoutmanager@sb://[*].servicebus.windows.net/] must be on the same machine as this Source=NServiceBus.Host

.

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="MessageForwardingInCaseOfFaultConfig" type="NServiceBus.Config.MessageForwardingInCaseOfFaultConfig, NServiceBus.Core" />
    <section name="UnicastBusConfig" type="NServiceBus.Config.UnicastBusConfig, NServiceBus.Core" />
    <section name="AzureServiceBusQueueConfig" type="NServiceBus.Config.AzureServiceBusQueueConfig, NServiceBus.Azure" />
    <section name="AzureTimeoutPersisterConfig" type="NServiceBus.Timeout.Hosting.Azure.AzureTimeoutPersisterConfig, NServiceBus.Timeout.Hosting.Azure" />
  </configSections>
  <AzureServiceBusQueueConfig IssuerName="owner" QueueName="testqueue" IssuerKey="[KEY]" ServiceNamespace="[NS]" />
  <MessageForwardingInCaseOfFaultConfig ErrorQueue="error" />
  <!-- Use the following line to explicitly set the Timeout manager address -->
  <UnicastBusConfig TimeoutManagerAddress="MyTimeoutManager" />
  <!-- Use the following line to explicity set the Timeout persisters connectionstring -->
  <AzureTimeoutPersisterConfig ConnectionString="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" />
  <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
    <supportedruntime version="v4.0" />
    <requiredruntime version="v4.0.20506" />
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0" />
  </startup>
</configuration>

Answer 1

Try moving UnicastBus() to the end of your call, like this:

    Configure.With()
       .DefaultBuilder()
       .XmlSerializer()
       .AzureServiceBusMessageQueue()
       .IsTransactional(true)
       .MessageForwardingInCaseOfFault()
       .UseInMemoryTimeoutPersister()
       .InMemorySubscriptionStorage()
       .UnicastBus(); // <- Here

And about those third parties posting messages to the queue. Keep in mind that they need to respect how NServiceBus handles serialization/deserialization. Here is how this is done in NServiceBus (the most important part is that the BrokeredMessage is initialized with a raw message, the result of a serialziation using the BinaryFormatter):

    private void Send(Byte[] rawMessage, QueueClient sender)
    {
        var numRetries = 0;
        var sent = false;

        while(!sent)
        {
            try
            {
                var brokeredMessage = new BrokeredMessage(rawMessage);

                sender.Send(brokeredMessage);

                sent = true;
            }
                // back off when we're being throttled
            catch (ServerBusyException)
            {
                numRetries++;

                if (numRetries >= MaxDeliveryCount) throw;

                Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(numRetries * DefaultBackoffTimeInSeconds));
            }
        }

    }

    private static byte[] SerializeMessage(TransportMessage message)
    {
        if (message.Headers == null)
            message.Headers = new Dictionary<string, string>();

        if (!message.Headers.ContainsKey(Idforcorrelation))
            message.Headers.Add(Idforcorrelation, null);

        if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(message.Headers[Idforcorrelation]))
            message.Headers[Idforcorrelation] = message.IdForCorrelation;

        using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            formatter.Serialize(stream, message);
            return stream.ToArray();
        }
    }

If you want NServiceBus to correctly deserialize the message, make sure your thierd parties serialize it correctly.