nickproud

SendGrid is offering a robust event webhook in the form of Inbound Email Parse, an API feature that allows you to receive emails for a specified domain, before automatically posting the email content and its metadata to a web endpoint of your choice.

This is a cool way to implement an automated email handling service in .NET. Here’s how you can easily receive emails direct to your REST project.

A brief explanation of how I used the .NET framework’s TCPListener to create a simple TCP server in the form of Easy-TCP-Server, a .NET core library which handles incoming TCP data from multiple clients via ‘channels’ of connections between the clients and the server.

As developers, we are constantly surrounded by rules. Rules for code-style, rules for better performance, rules for good design, but who is setting those rules?

I’ve been recently working on a gateway service hosted in Azure that is primarily a TCP server. One of the key requirements of the project is that it allows clients running a desktop-based windows service to initiate a handshake over TCP when their respective service is started, and then keeps a connection open between the client and server for the receipt of messages at any given time.

However, this presented a problem. Azure doesn’t like me doing this.