How To Send Emails With .NET in Under 10 Minutes - Tutorial by Mailtrap

hello and welcome to mail trap videos where we explore the world of emails here's how to send emails with net [Music] before we get started keep in mind that in our examples we'll be using configurations from mailtrap email sending which has both SMTP and API functionality but of course following the same principle you can use any other sending service so the first thing you want to do is create a new asp.net project with C sharp as the main language this can be done from the file menu in Visual Studio next give the project a name and select the framework version in this case we went with the sixth version since it's better supported but you can also go with the newer version now make sure that the used controllers and enable open API Support options are checked now hit create and clean up your project by deleting any unnecessary files at this stage you'll need to integrate your project with swagger UI it is a tool that presents apis in a user-friendly and easy to understand manner so right click on your project and select manage new get packages and search for Swagger now install the latest version of swagger core generator and UI packages that appear in the search results [Music] the links to all three can be found in the description under this video after the installation include the Swagger service in the program.cs file by using the services dot add swaggergen method and configure the rest of the package options [Music] you can find the full relevant code for this step in our article Linked In the video description next just like you did with the Swagger package install mail kit a Microsoft recommended Library thanks to its suitability for modern development again the relevant link can be found in the description down below foreign at this stage using the mail settings class add your SMTP server and email account details to the app settings.json file now that you've added the SMTP server and email details you have to make them readable at runtime for this create a new class name it and within the public class mail settings configure the SMTP setting [Music] now to load data from App settings.json into the new class using the configure method add the relevant line of code in program.cs and finally write the email sending code unlike with some other frameworks.net email sending code is written across multiple documents and folders first create a model to hold the necessary email data name it mail data and add the email told email to name email subject and email body properties next create an email sending interface and a service implementing that interface place them in a Services folder at the root of your project now register the service in the application container by adding this line to the program.cs file lastly you want to inject the service into an API controller for better code flexibility testability reusability and maintainability so create a new file called mailcontroller.cs under the controllers folder and in it inject the imail service using dependency injection to enable the use of the email service created earlier to do this add a Constructor for the mail controller class that takes imail Service as a parameter next Implement a post method named send mail within the mail controller class which takes a mail data object and sends an email using the injected service foreign [Music] that's it you just created a working API endpoint for sending emails with your email service let's run the project and use Swagger to test the email sending functionality navigate to your local host page make sure your inbox is refreshed click try it out and enter the email parameters in the request body once done click execute and that's it your email is in the inbox foreign [Music] to improve the performance and responsiveness of your application and avoid any potential bottlenecks you might also choose to send an email asynchronously first add a new method signature to the imail service interface for asynchronous email sending next implement the async version of the method in the mail service class that was created earlier you could just copy and paste this code and use Swagger again to check that everything works now that we've covered the SMTP methods let's move on to explore the restful API based approach which offers a more automated and feature-packed solution for sending emails first thing you need to do is to add the API token and API based URL properties in the mail settings.cs file both of which you can find in the setting of your account once done Define the values for both properties in the app settings.json file next using the Builder add the HTTP client to the application service container in the program.cs file in this example it's mail trap foreign [Music] at this point create a new interface in the services folder and name it I API mail service Now define the method signature for an asynchronous method in the same folder create a class called API mail service implementing the I API mail service interface and in the Constructor of the class inject the mail settings class and the ihttp client Factory interface in our blog you can find the code to send HTML emails using a template and emails with attachments now you can register the API mail service in the program.cs file create a controller in the controllers folder and name it mail API controller [Music] adjust the route so it contains the right controller name and in the Constructor inject the iapi mail service that's it you've successfully set up an email API in your.net core project just like with the SMTP method use Swagger to check that everything works feel free to check out our article to learn more about sending emails with net where we also cover how to send HTML emails emails with attachments and how to test email sending functionality we hope you found this tutorial helpful thank you so much for watching this video brought to you by mailtrap an email delivery platform to test send and control your email 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Id: XfZBzUSFg4Y

Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Mon May 22 2023