Send Email Using SendGrid Email Service with an Attachment

This article will walk you through the creation of ASP.NET Core MVC web application with C# language and send an email using SendGrid Email Service.

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In a modern web application, email notification or verification has now become a major and important part of the application. Using email service, we can ensure application user registration, reset the password, mobile number verification, etc. verification process very smoothly, quickly and so secure way. Newsletters, Promotion and Shipping Notifications task can also have been done by using email service as well.
Therefore in any application, alarm email notification, security verification process and enable or set something new email notification, we can make sure using email service.

In this article, I will explain with details, how to send an email from ASP.NET Core MVC web application using Sendgrid email service. I will write a Sendgrid email service as well for send an email using C# language and by installing Sendgrid nuget package manager.

Prerequisite

Good knowledge of C# language, ASP.NET Core MVC application, and .NET CLI.

Background

Let’s move to this demonstration and create an ASP.NET Core MVC web application. But before moving to the practical demonstration, let’s understand the objective of this demonstration which tells what exactly will be covered in this article. So, here is the objective as follows:

1. Create a SendGrid account
2. Get API key from SendGrid account which already created
3. Create a project
4. Code implementation
5. Conclusion

Create a SendGrid Account

Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service that ensures reliable email delivery, scalability, and real-time service analysis using the SendGrid application dashboard. SendGrid API helps in delivering your important emails over SMPT or HTTP.
You can create a free account from the Sendgrid website.