Publish / Subscribe is one of several messaging paradigms supported by Universal Messaging. Universal Messaging Data Groups are lightweight structures designed to facilitate Publish/Subscribe . When using Data Groups, user subscriptions are managed remotely in a way that is transparent to subscribers. Universal Messaging Channels provide an alternative style of Publish/Subscribe where the subscribers manage their subscriptions directly.

This section demonstrates Universal Messaging pub / sub using Data Groups in C#, and provides example code snippets for all relevant concepts.