Abs07act Sendgrid is popular. No doubt about it! Especially for Dev and Test scenarios where you get 25000 free emails a month. This post describes how can you use Sendgrid to send email using PowerShell. Don’t expect me to write blog post on C# code for sending email using Sendgrid. Because, Sendgrid will keep updating their API (like V2, V3 and so on); ultimately C# code will also change. So you can refer C# or other languages code sample from SendGrid documentation itself. Provision SendGrid account on Microsoft Azure Let’s create a SendGrid account quickly on Azure. Login to Azure portal on the link – http://portal.azure.com . Sendgrid today available only in selected region. Example, not available in India region. I am based out of India so nearest data ce...

I know the title of this post is quite big and hard to understand in first go. But I wanted to highlight the important aspect I am going to touch in the article and hence such a long name. Ok, so here in this post I am going to demo how you can host multiple web applications in single cloud service. I know you may say that there are numerous posts on the same topic what is different in here? Yes the difference is there. You may find that most of the posts talks about hosting multiple web sites in single cloud service web role but they do not focus on running them on HTTPS and with custom domain name. Exactly this is what I am explaining in this post. So in essence, we will see that, how can we host multiple web applications in single cloud service web role. Then we will see how the same applications can be hosted on HTTPS using SSL certificates in single cloud service web role. After that we will extend the talk to hosting same apps with custom domains using new feature of IIS 8...