How do I use RabbitMQ on Mono on Linux

After several hours I got a basic sample working.

Firstly, download rabbitmq-dotnet-client-3.4.3-dotnet-3.5.zip from www.rabbitmq.com/dotnet.html

Extract and add a reference to the RabbitMQ.Client.dll to your project.

using RabbitMQ.Client; static public void Publish() { ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory(); // The next six lines are optional: factory.UserName = ConnectionFactory.DefaultUser; factory.Password = ConnectionFactory.DefaultPass; factory.VirtualHost = ConnectionFactory.DefaultVHost; factory.HostName = "localhost"; factory.Port = AmqpTcpEndpoint.UseDefaultPort; // You also could do this instead: factory.Uri = "amqp://localhost"; IConnection connection = factory.CreateConnection(); IModel channel = connection.CreateModel(); channel.QueueDeclare("hello-world-queue", // queue false, // durable false, // exclusive false, // autoDelete null); // arguments byte[] message = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello, World!"); channel.BasicPublish(string.Empty, // exchange "hello-world-queue", // routingKey null, // basicProperties message); // body Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit"); Console.ReadKey(); channel.Close(); connection.Close(); } static public void Subscribe() { ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new ConnectionFactory(); IConnection connection = connectionFactory.CreateConnection(); IModel channel = connection.CreateModel(); channel.QueueDeclare("hello-world-queue", false, false, false, null); // BasicGet: Retrieve an individual message, if one is available. // Returns null if the server answers that no messages are currently available. BasicGetResult result = channel.BasicGet("hello-world-queue", // queue true); // noAck (true=auto ack, false=we must call BasicAck ourselves) if (result != null) { string message = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(result.Body); Console.WriteLine(message); // If the noAck parameter to BasicGet was false then: // channel.BasicAck(result.DeliveryTag // deliveryTag // false); // multiple (not sure what this means) } Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit"); Console.ReadKey(); channel.Close(); connection.Close(); } 

I hope that helps someone.