Is this a good / preferred Azure Queue design pattern for the T4 pattern?

Question

I am creating a T4 template that will help people consistently build Azure queues. I would like to make this self-documenting and somewhat consistent.

• First I made the queue name at the top of the file, the queue names should be lowercase, so I added ToLower ()

• The public constructor uses the built-in StorageClient API to access connection strings. I have seen many different approaches to this and would like to get something that works in almost all situations. (ideas? really share)

• I don't like unnecessary HTTP requests to check if queues are created, so I did static bool. I have not implemented Lock (monitorObject) since I do not think it is needed.

• Instead of using a string and parsing it with a comma (like most MSDN documentation), I serialize the object when I put it in the queue.

• For further optimization, I use the extension method of the JSON serializer to make the most of the 8k limit. Not sure coding will help optimize this anymore

• Added retry logic for processing certain scripts that appear in the queue (see the html link)

• Q: The corresponding name for the DataContext for this class?

• Q: Is it bad practice to name the action name in the queue in the way I did it?

What additional changes do you think I should make?

public class AgentQueueDataContext
{
    // Queue names must always be in lowercase
    // Is named like a const, but isn't one because .ToLower won't compile...
    static string AGENT_QUEUE_ACTION_NAME = "AgentQueueActions".ToLower();

  static bool QueuesWereCreated { get; set; }

    DataModel.SecretDataSource secDataSource = null;

    CloudStorageAccount cloudStorageAccount = null;
    CloudQueueClient cloudQueueClient = null;
    CloudQueue queueAgentQueueActions = null;

    static AgentQueueDataContext()
    {
        QueuesWereCreated = false;
    }

    public AgentQueueDataContext() : this(false)
    {
    }
    public AgentQueueDataContext(bool CreateQueues)
    {
        // This pattern of setting up queues is from:
        // ttp://convective.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/queues-azure-storage-client-v1-0/
        //
        this.cloudStorageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("DataConnectionString");
        this.cloudQueueClient = cloudStorageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
        this.secDataSource = new DataModel.SecretDataSource();

        queueAgentQueueActions = cloudQueueClient.GetQueueReference(AGENT_QUEUE_ACTION_NAME);

        if (QueuesWereCreated == false || CreateQueues)
        {
            queueAgentQueueActions.CreateIfNotExist();
            QueuesWereCreated = true;
        }
    }

  // This is the method that will be spawned using ThreadStart
   public void CheckQueue()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            try
            {
                CloudQueueMessage msg = queueAgentQueueActions.GetMessage();

                bool DoRetryDelayLogic = false;

                if (msg != null)
                {
                    // Deserialize using JSON (allows more data to be stored)
                    AgentQueueEntry actionableMessage = msg.AsString.FromJSONString<AgentQueueEntry>();

                    switch (actionableMessage.ActionType)
                    {
                        case AgentQueueActionEnum.EnrollNew:
                            {
                                // Add to 
                                break;
                            }
                        case AgentQueueActionEnum.LinkToSite:
                            {
                                // Link within Agent itself

                                // Link within Site

                                break;
                            }
                        case AgentQueueActionEnum.DisableKey:
                            {
                                // Disable key in site

                                // Disable key in AgentTable (update modification time)

                                break;
                            }
                        default:
                            {
                                break;
                            }
                    }

                    //
                    // Only delete the message if the requested agent has been missing for 
                    // at least 10 minutes
                    //
                    if (DoRetryDelayLogic)
                    {
                        if (msg.InsertionTime != null)
                            if (msg.InsertionTime < DateTime.UtcNow + new TimeSpan(0, 10, 10))
                                continue;

                        // ToDo: Log error: AgentID xxx has not been found in table for xxx minutes.   
                        //                  It is likely the result of a the registratoin host crashing.
                        //                  Data is still consistent.  Deleting queued message.
                    }


                    //
                    // If execution made it to this point, then we are either fully processed, or 
                    // there is sufficent reason to discard the message.
                    //
                    try
                    {
                        queueAgentQueueActions.DeleteMessage(msg);
                    }
                    catch (StorageClientException ex)
                    {
                        // As of July 2010, this is the best way to detect this class of exception
                        // Description: ttp://blog.smarx.com/posts/deleting-windows-azure-queue-messages-handling-exceptions
                        if (ex.ExtendedErrorInformation.ErrorCode == "MessageNotFound")
                        {
                            // pop receipt must be invalid
                            // ignore or log (so we can tune the visibility timeout)
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            // not the error we were expecting
                            throw;
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                   // allow control to fall to the bottom, where the sleep timer is...
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                // Justification: Thread must not fail.
                //Todo: Log this exception

                // allow control to fall to the bottom, where the sleep timer is...
                // Rationale: not doing so may cause queue thrashing on a specific corrupt entry
            }

            // todo: Thread.Sleep() is bad
            //       Replace with something better...
            Thread.Sleep(9000);
        }

Answer 1

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