MSMQ - Fast Maker / Slow Consumer

Question

I have a messaging problem (with MSMQ), which is a kind of fast producer / slow consumer. Is there a way to get an outstanding number of unused messages in an MSMQ private queue? I would like to use this to throttle the manufacturer.

I would like to use the semaphore paradigm with MSMQ, where the producer application will send messages only if the number of remaining messages is less than the specified one.

Essentially, I would like to do something like the following

///Producer pseudo-code 
    public void SendMessage(Message message, int totalMessagesSentCounter)
    {
       if (totalMessagesSentCounter % 1000 == 0)
       {
         while (outgoingQueue.GetMessageCount() > X)  ///Is this possible?
         {
             Sleep(Y milliseconds);
         }
        }
       outgoingQueue.Send(Message);
       totalMessagesSentCounter++;
    }

My configuration: Win XP / 2003 with MSMQ 3.0

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http://blog.codebeside.org/archive/2008/08/27/counting-the-number-of-messages-in-a-message-queue-in.aspx