Service Broker Programming Concepts
Service Broker introduces concepts that are unique to developing a Service Broker application. Understanding these concepts will help you build applications that take full advantage of Service Broker capabilities.
In This Section
- Transactional Messaging 
 Explains how Service Broker messaging works with SQL Server transactions.
- Conversation Group Locks 
 Explains how Conversation Group locks help you easily manage concurrency.
- State Management 
 Describes general strategies for maintaining state in a Service Broker application.
- Service Broker Activation 
 Explains how activation helps programs to scale dynamically, and describes when and how to use activation.
- Error Handling for Service Broker 
 Discusses error handing in applications that use Service Broker.