Problems reading from Microsoft Messaging Queues in C# - c#-4.0

Question

I have problems reading from my MSMQ. When I write to the queue, it works perfectly, but when I try to read that message from the queue, I get the following exception: "The queue does not exist or you do not have sufficient permissions to perform the operation." The queue does exists, and I have full permissions on the machine and queue. Here is my code:
public string path = #".\private$\";
public void WriteToQueue(string QueueName, object messageObject)
{
try
{
path = path + QueueName;
MessageQueue msmq = null;
if (!MessageQueue.Exists(path))
{
msmq = MessageQueue.Create(path);
}
else
{
msmq = new MessageQueue(path);
}
msmq.Formatter = new XmlMessageFormatter(new Type[] { typeof(string)});
msmq.Send(messageObject);
msmq.Close();
}
catch (MessageQueueException ex)
{
System.ArgumentException argEx = neArgumentException(ex.ToString());
throw argEx;
}
path = #".\private$\";
}
public string ReadQueue(string QueueName)
{
try
{
path = path + QueueName;
MessageQueue msmq = new MessageQueue(path);
string msg;
msmq.Formatter = new XmlMessageFormatter(new Type[] { typeof(string)});
msg = msmq.Receive().Body.ToString(); //exception is thrown here
path = #".\private$\";
return msg;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return null;
}
}
can the problem maybe be with reading it as type of string? Maybe not in the right format?

Answer 1

Try this:
public string path = ".\\private$\\";
'#' doesn't work for me too.