Sending an email notification to the administrator of the website using the SendGrid service

In this recipe, you will learn how to create a SendGrid output binding and send an email notification to the administrator with static content. In general, there would be only administrators, so we will be hardcoding the email address of the administrator in the To address field of the SendGrid output (message) binding.

Getting ready

We will perform the following steps before moving to the next section:

1. Create a SendGrid account API key from the Azure Management portal.
2. Generate an API key from the SendGrid portal.

Creating a SendGrid account

1. Navigate to Azure Management portal and create a SendGrid Email Delivery account by searching for it in the Marketplace, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. In the SendGrid Email Delivery blade, click on the Create button to navigate to Create a New SendGrid Account. Select free in Pricing tier and provide all the other details and click on the Create button, as...