---
title: "Consuming messages"
description: "Consuming messages — .NET BabelQueue SDK (1.x)."
source: https://babelqueue.com/docs/babelqueue-dotnet/1.x/consuming-messages/
updated: 2026-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
---

# Consuming messages

Pull the bytes from your broker, `Decode` them, gate with `Accepts`, then switch
on the URN — regardless of which language produced the message. `TraceId` carries
the cross-service correlation id.

```csharp
using BabelQueue;

// body pulled from your broker (a StackExchange.Redis pop, an AMQP delivery, …)
var incoming = EnvelopeCodec.Decode(body);
if (EnvelopeCodec.Accepts(incoming))
{
    switch (EnvelopeCodec.Urn(incoming))
    {
        case "urn:babel:orders:created":
            logger.LogInformation("[{Trace}] order received: {Data}", incoming.TraceId, incoming.Data);
            break;
    }
}
```

That's the whole loop: any producer, any consumer, one schema.