Purging the queue causes Message Queuing to set the queue modification flag, which affects the LastModifyTime property. Messages that are purged from the queue are lost; they are not sent to the dead-letter queue or the journal queue.

The following table shows whether this method is available in various Workgroup modes.

The following code example demonstrates the use of Purge.

// Connect to a queue on the local computer.
MessageQueue queue = new MessageQueue(".\\exampleQueue");

// Delete all messages from the queue.
queue.Purge();

// Connect to a queue on the local computer.
MessageQueue^ queue = gcnew MessageQueue(".\\exampleQueue");

// Delete all messages from the queue.
queue->Purge();

queue->Close();

// Connect to a queue on the local computer.
MessageQueue queue = new MessageQueue(".\\exampleQueue");
// Delete all messages from the queue.
queue.Purge();

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see .

Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.

.NET Framework

.NET Compact Framework