Email communication is an essential aspect of most businesses. In this post, you will look into the basics of sending emails with the Twilio SendGrid Email API and sending templated emails with the Handlebars templating language. Finally, you will finish by putting it together in a sample project that sends emails based on a template.

Prerequisites

You'll need the following things for this tutorial:

• A free Twilio SendGrid account. Sign up for a SendGrid account here to send up to 100 emails per day completely free of charge
• An OS that supports .NET (Windows/macOS/Linux)
• .NET 6.0 SDK (newer and older versions may work too)
• A code editor or IDE (Recommended: Visual Studio Code with the C# plugin, Visual Studio, or JetBrains Rider)

Set Up SendGrid

API Key

First things first: To use the SendGrid API, you need an API key. Create one by heading over to the …