Viewing Queue contents using the Azure Dashboard
"Azure dashboard", do you refer to Azure Portal "https://portal.azure.com" ?
portal is more for manage your cloud resource but not the actual content. you will need to look for other third party tooling.
Storage Explorer would be a good one to look at: http://storageexplorer.com/and Azure Storage Explorer http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/
Looks like you can do this in Azure dashboard:
How to view the contents (current messages) of a Queue from the Azure Dashboard
- Login to Azure portal
- Find the Storage Account associated to the queue.
- Navigate to Queues.
- Find the named queue and click it.
- From the Overview you will see a load of rows with columns including "insertion times" and "expiration times" as well as "Message Text".
- Click a row to see it's contents: Here is an example of what this looks like
You have (2) good options - VS IDE Cloud Explorer ORMicrosoft has Azure Storage Explorer now which is based on Electron. This project was formerly known as Deco.
CodePlex is shutting down December 2017 - Azure Storage Explorer will no longer exist!