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This library allows you to quickly and easily use the SendGrid Web API v3 via C# with .NET.
Version 9.X.X+ of this library provides full support for all SendGrid Web API v3 endpoints, including the new v3 /mail/send.
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- .NET version 4.5.2 and higher
- .NET Core 1.0 and higher
- .NET Standard 1.3 support
- A SendGrid account, sign up for free to send up to 40,000 emails for the first 30 days or check out our pricing.
Grab your API Key from the SendGrid UI.
Do not hard code your SendGrid API Key into your code. Instead, use something like an environment variable or Web.config.
The examples found below in this quick start and in the example projects all make use of storing their API keys as an environment variable.
Environment variables are usually part of the OS and are available to programs within that same OS. It gives the option to bypass hardcoding credentials, making them easy to manage.
The following example will go through adding an environment variable in Windows 10.
Looking at the code example from the Quick Start, we see that the second line of the Execute() method tries to retrieve an environment variable like so:
var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY");NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY isn't a variable of your OS environment yet, so let's add it.
Press win + R (or search for "run"), fill in "SystemPropertiesAdvanced", press enter and then click "Environment variables".
You'll get two lists of variables, but we'll focus on the User Variables for this example.
Click the "New" button beneath the User Variables list. Give it the name NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY (or rename the variable in both the environment and code to a more generic name).
For value, insert your SendGrid API key. Click "Ok", and once again in the Variable Overview and lastly, close the system properties window.
For other Windows version, you can set an environment variable like this:
var setKey = Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY", value);For example,
var setKey = Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("SENDGRID_API_KEY", YOUR_API_KEY);You may need to restart your IDE to make use of the new variable.
Now, if all went well, you can access the newly added variable in your C# SendGrid projects! Ready for some examples?
To use SendGrid in your C# project, you can either download the SendGrid C# .NET libraries directly from our Github repository or if you have the NuGet package manager installed, you can grab them automatically:
PM> Install-Package SendGrid
Once you have the SendGrid library installed, you can include calls to them in your code. For sample implementations, see the .NET Core Example and the .NET 4.5.2 Example folders.
- Please see the .nuspec file.
The following is the minimum needed code to send an simple email. Use this example, and modify the apiKey, from and to variables:
using SendGrid;
using SendGrid.Helpers.Mail;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Example
{
internal class Example
{
private static void Main()
{
Execute().Wait();
}
static async Task Execute()
{
var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY");
var client = new SendGridClient(apiKey);
var from = new EmailAddress("test@example.com", "Example User");
var subject = "Sending with SendGrid is Fun";
var to = new EmailAddress("test@example.com", "Example User");
var plainTextContent = "and easy to do anywhere, even with C#";
var htmlContent = "<strong>and easy to do anywhere, even with C#</strong>";
var msg = MailHelper.CreateSingleEmail(from, to, subject, plainTextContent, htmlContent);
var response = await client.SendEmailAsync(msg);
}
}
}After executing the above code, response.StatusCode should be 202 and you should have an email in the inbox of the to recipient. You can check the status of your email in the UI. Alternatively, we can post events to a URL of your choice using our Event Webhook. This gives you data about the events that occur as SendGrid processes your email.
For more advanced cases, you can build the SendGridMessage object yourself with these minimum required settings:
using SendGrid;
using SendGrid.Helpers.Mail;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Example
{
internal class Example
{
private static void Main()
{
Execute().Wait();
}
static async Task Execute()
{
var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY");
var client = new SendGridClient(apiKey);
var msg = new SendGridMessage()
{
From = new EmailAddress("test@example.com", "DX Team"),
Subject = "Sending with SendGrid is Fun",
PlainTextContent = "and easy to do anywhere, even with C#",
HtmlContent = "<strong>and easy to do anywhere, even with C#</strong>"
};
msg.AddTo(new EmailAddress("test@example.com", "Test User"));
var response = await client.SendEmailAsync(msg);
}
}
}You can find an example of all of the email features here.
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using SendGrid;
namespace Example
{
internal class Example
{
private static void Main()
{
Execute().Wait();
}
static async Task Execute()
{
var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY");
var client = new SendGridClient(apiKey);
var queryParams = @"{
'limit': 100
}";
var response = await client.RequestAsync(method: SendGridClient.Method.GET,
urlPath: "suppression/bounces",
queryParams: queryParams);
}
}
}var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("NAME_OF_THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_FOR_YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY");
var proxy = new WebProxy("http://proxy:1337");
var client = new SendGridClient(proxy, apiKey);- SendGrid Docs
- Library Usage Docs
- Example Code - .NET Core
- Example Code - .NET 4.5.2+
- How-to: Migration from v2 to v3
- v3 Web API Mail Send Helper
Here are some examples of common API use cases, such as how to send an email with a transactional template.
If you are interested in the future direction of this project, please take a look at our open issues and pull requests. We would love to hear your feedback!
We encourage contribution to our library (you might even score some nifty swag), please see our CONTRIBUTING guide for details.
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Please see our troubleshooting guide for common library issues.
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