Purple Explorer - cross-platform Azure Service Bus explorer (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Purple Explorer is a cross-platform desktop application built with .NET 8.
This repository is a fork of the original PurpleExplorer project, which appears to be no longer maintained. This fork attempts to continue development, albeit at a slow pace.

It's a simple tool to help you:

• Connect to Azure Service Bus
• View topics and subscriptions
• View queues
• View active and dead-letter messages
• View message body and its details
• Send a new message
• Save messages to send them quickly
• Delete a message ^
• Purge active or dead-letter messages
• Re-submit a message from dead-letter
• Dead-letter a message ^

^ NOTE: These marked actions require receiving all the messages up to the selected message and this increases DeliveryCount. Be aware that there can be consequences to other messages in the subscription.

How to run

This project is provided only as source code. You need to have .NET 8 or later installed.

To build and run the project:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Navigate to the root of the repo.
3. Run dotnet run --project PurpleExplorer/PurpleExplorer.csproj to run the application;
   or after building with dotnet build, run dotnet run PurpleExplorer/bin/Debug/net8.0/PurpleExplorer.dll.

Recent Changes

Since forking from the original project, the following significant updates have been made:

• Enhanced UI:
  • resizable panels and grids;
  • filtering for the tree view;
  • improved message details window with DLQ reason display and application properties;
  • added spinner to indicate background operations.
• Improved connection management and user experience (taller connection box, alerts for existing connections, etc.).
• Upgraded to .NET 8 for better performance and latest features.
• Upgraded to latest Avalonia (v11) for improved UI framework capabilities.
• Migrated to Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus for the latest Azure SDK.
• Upgraded all dependencies to their latest versions.
• Implemented comprehensive nullability fixes and code quality improvements
• (editorconfig, better naming).
• Added key bindings and buttons for closing windows.
• Fixed various bugs including null reference exceptions, timeout issues, and app state handling.

For a full list of changes, see the git commit history.