VisibilityTimeout Property

The visibility duration for messages in the queue.

Syntax

[VB.NET]
Public Property VisibilityTimeout As Integer

[C#]
public int VisibilityTimeout {get; set;}

Remarks

Visibility timeout is used to guard against multiple delivery. Successive calls to ListMessages on a queue will not return any message again until the timeout expires, after which the message may reappear unless deleted with DeleteMessage.

A default visibility timeout is configured when a queue is created using CreateQueue, it can also be altered when a message is added using CreateMessage or when they are retrieved using ListMessages.

The default value for VisibilityTimeout is -1, which notifies the component that you would like to use the default behavior for the current Queue.

Default Value

-1