.NET Core: Building Function app with Microsoft Graph API and Azure Functions
1 Introduction
This article is going to describe how to create a function app on .NET Core and publish it into Azure, this function app URL is going to act as a notification URL. In Graph API, we are going to use subscription API, to subscribe to SentItems folder in mailbox, whenever we are going to send an email, function app gets a notification about the changes and mail details.
2 Background
- If you love to start with .NET Core on a Linux server, check what are the basic things you have to do, Install .NETCore in a Linux server
- Say Hello from .NET Core application in a Linux server, .NET Core with a Linux server: Hello World!
- If you are interested in open source platforms and want to try out .NET Core application development in Linux, try with these steps, .NETCore: Create a web application with a Linux server
- If you want to know how to create an ASP.NET Core service application check this article, ASP.NETCore: Create a Web API application
- If you want to show a loading panel on the screen using ASP.NET Core, go through this article, ASP.NET Core : How to show a loading panel in a page
- If you like to use template generators for .NET Core this is the ideal article for you, .NET Core: Create web application with Yeoman template generator
- When you are developing ASP.NET Core web applications, security is a crucial thing, follow this article to know more about it, Secure your .NETCore web applications using IdentityServer 4
- Check how to show a confirmation dialog with jquery from this post, ASP.NET Core : How to show a confirmation dialog with jquery
- If you want to try out advanced features in jquery dialog on top of .NET Core, this will be a great article for you, ASP.NET Core : Advanced JQuery dialog actions
- If you are interested in user authentication & ASP.NET Identity follow this link, ASP.NET Identity: Customize User Authentication
- If you are interested to know about Azure storage, blobs check this article, Send smtp email with Azure blob storage attachments
- We are going to create a Function app and publish that in Azure, if you are curious to know more about Azure functions check this one, Azure Function App: Create a trigger on Cosmos DB
3 Prerequisites
- In this article, we are going to create a function in Visual Studio 2017 with .NET Core 2.0 version, If you want to update your .NET Core version, check here .NET Core latest version
- Then we are going to publish the function app to Azure, if you don't have an Azure subscription, try to get a free account to test this sample application, Azure free account
- We used postman to test our function, Get postsman
4 Create Azure Function App
Let's see how we can create a function app in Visual Studio on top of .NET Core and how to publish it to Azure
4.1 Create a basic solution in Visual Studio
Open Visual Studio, we have installed Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise edition with version 15.6.6
Go to File -> New -> Project, We will see New Project window like this, Select Azure Functions to create an Azure Function project. Give it a name and a location and click OK, In this sample, I created it as SendEmailTrigger
We can see a window to select a function template as below, It shows two different versions of Azure Functions v1 & v2,
Azure Functions v1 built with .NET Framework and its generally available, and Azure Function v2 goes with .NET Core and at the time of writing this article, its available only in preview.
A major difference in Azure Function runtime v1 and v2 is, *v1 *doesn't support cross-platform development and hosting options.
v1 supports development and deployments in portal or in *windows. *But v2 runs on .NET Core, that means it can run on all the platforms including Mac OS and Linux.
When it comes to language support for both versions, v1 supports for C#, Javascript and F#, v2 supports for those 3 languages & Java.
In v1, it supports for Python, Php, Typescript, Batch commands, Bash and PowerShell in experimental level and those languages are not available in version 2
When it comes to bindings, a cool feature is, binding extensions can be versioned and released independently, since v2 has decoupled run time and bindings, So we can upgrade to a newer version of an extension
Version 2 has introduced many new bindings based on Microsoft Graph (Excel, OneDrive, Outlook email, Graph events, Graph auth tokens), In this post, we are going to discuss Microsoft Graph Outlook binding in .NET Core
For our example, select Azure Functions V2 (.NET Core) as below
We can see the available templates as below, select an Http trigger from the list,
In this example, for Storage account, leave the default value as it is, or else we can add already existing storage account in Azure by clicking on browse option
A storage account is used to store function files, logging information and also blobs, queues or tables if our function uses them.
In this example, selected Anonymous as access rights, it doesn't require any authentication to call the function.
If we select Functional level access, we have to pass function key ineach and every request that can be managed from the azure portal, that's the safest way, but for now, will go with anonymous.
In Admin access level with function key, it will return 401 - no authentication, we have to pass host key if we go with *Admin access level
*
When we hit on OK, it will show a dialog to update Azure Function CLI tools as below if we don't have the latest tool set,
In this example, it installs *Azure Function CLI tools 1.0.12
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We can see the solution like this, It has created a function in Function1 class file
We can see Httptrigger is created in Function1 class and we can notice authorization level is *anonymous.
*
Run the project, click on Debug -> Start without Debugging, it will show a cmd window like this, At first, It's going to check whether any configurations available in host.json file. We can access the function in given URL as below
4.2 Call the function from the browser
Let's call the function from a browser and it shows function output as below. We haven't passed name parameter when calling the function, it returns a bad request as this. If we look at the cmd, it shows the logging information on function execution like this
Change function name Function1 to EmailTrigger and run the solution, it has changed the function url as below
4.3 Call the function from postman
Open postman and call function, provide name parameter in function url, it will show output like this
4.4 Host your function in Azure
Let's publish this function to Azure. In solution explorer, click on solution file and select publish option
We will see a window to publish our function, Since we are going to create an application from the beginning, select Create New option
We will see this window to create the app service, We can give a name to our application and select azure subscription
In Resource group section, click on New, it will prompt a dialog box as below. We can give a name to the resource group and click on OK
Resource group is a collection of resources that are grouped together for easy management. When we work with an application, we can group all resources relevant to the application in a one place and remove all of then in a single click by deleting the resource group
Click on New link under Hosting Plan, we get a screen like this, We can give a name to App Service Plan and a Location to host the hosting plan
We can select *Consumption *for size requirement, In Consumption plan, resources are dynamically added to our application as per requirements, and we only pay for the time our function app runs, If we go with the other size options, it will act as a App Service plan, that means our function app runs on a dedicated VM similar to Web apps, API apps and mobile apps, our function app is always running.
Click on New in Storage Account section, you will get a window like this.
You can give a storage account name and select a account type, lets go with basic, *standard account
*
Finally we are good to go, We can see a resource group, hosting plan, storage account and function app is getting created with the configurations we provided, Let's hit the create button !
You can see the publish summary along with the function url in following window,
You will get a prompt to update the version of the function app, since we use Function v2, we have to change the version to *beta
*
Click on Output window, you will see details on function app publish
4.5 View function configuration in Azure
Open Azure portal, click on *All resources
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Go to All resource groups drop down and filter from MailTrigger, you will see available resources as below, function app, service plan & *storage account
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Click on MailTrigger App service, it will open a window like this. You can see the subscription of the function app, resource group, location, url to access the function and service plan we selected
Go to Function app settings, you will see run time version is assigned to beta
Go to Application settings from overview section of the function app, you can see FUNCTIONS_EXTENSION_VERSION has been changed to *beta
*
You can see available functions in MailTrigger function app, click on EmailTrigger function, you get a window like this, it shows function.json file contains bindings, authorization details and entry point to the application
Click on Get function URL and you can copy the function url. We can notice MailTrigger is the Function App, under that it shows function EmailTrigger that we are going to test
Go to postman, we can test published function as below, pass name parameter and check the output in the body section
Click on Run button, after you call the function from postman, you can see the function log as below.
You have published the function in to azure and its running perfectly, Let's move in to Graph API
5 Create application in Graph API
Microsoft Graph is the API for Microsoft 365 that provides access to all the data available in Office 365, we can connect to mail, calendar, contacts, documents, directories, users.
Microsoft Graph exposes APIs for Azure Active Directory, Office 365 services like Sharepoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Exchange, Microsoft Team services, OneNote, Planner, Excel
You can find a picture i copied from Microsoft Graph overview
5.1 Create first application with Microsoft Graph
Go to Microsoft Graph and click on Quick Starts, you will get a window like this
You can build a simple application by following below steps, let's try it out
In the first step, let's select ASP.NET MVC from the list
Click on the button to register your application in the portal, You need to have a Microsoft account or a school or work type of account
You can see the app secret, will copy it for future references. After that click on the button, you will get redirected to the Quick Start page
Paste app secret into the below text box and download the generated code sample
You can see the downloaded code sample as below
In 4th step, click on Application Registration Portal to configure your new application
You can see available applications under your account, click on application name
Go to Microsoft Graph Permissions to add few application permissions to access email, Click on Add button in Application Permissions section
You can see available permissions to select for an application, Calendar, call, mail and user permissions
We have to assign permissions to read email and send email, select Mail.ReadWrite & Mail.Send permissions to assign to the application and save changes
You can see Mail related permissions are allocated to the application as below. Azure function is running without any user interaction, so it should have these permissions
5.2 What is Graph Explorer
Go to Microsoft Graph and navigate to Graph Explorer, You can query available data in Office 365 from here, Let's run few queries and check its output
Check following image, even without signing in we can run these queries and check the result, You can access your personnel data with these api calls
Graph explorer is a http request tool for issuing request against *Microsoft graph
*
Click on my photo GET request from sample queries
We can click on Run Query, you will get the result as the profile photo with status code 200, In this sample queries we are using Megan Bowen's account
Let's click on my profile, it will show profile details of the logged in user
If you want to access other available APIs, click on *show more samples
*
You will get a window like this with available APIs and data you can view, You can access to emails, Calendar, Contacts, Excel, OneDrive etc
5.3 Explore Subscription API
A subscription allows a client app to receive notification about changes to data in Microsoft Graph. Subscriptions are available for Mail, Events, Outlook Contacts, Conversations, OneDrive, *Users & Groups in Azure Active Directory *
You can login with your Microsoft account, work or school account, Let's create a subscription to a webhook with our *function url, *In here we are going to create a web hook subscription to check on SentItems folder in your mail box. You can find the API reference to create a subscription as below
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/subscriptions
Content-type: application/json
{
"changeType": "created,updated",
"notificationUrl": "https://webhook.azurewebsites.net/api/send/myNotifyClient",
"resource": "me/mailFolders('Inbox')/messages",
"expirationDateTime":"2016-11-20T18:23:45.9356913Z",
"clientState": "subscription-identifier"
}
When we are going to create the subscription, at first its going to validate the subscription by calling POST request on notification url, https://webhook.azurewebsites.net/api/send/myNotifyClient?validationToken=\<token> Its going to validate passed validationtoken
So let's change our function app to validate the validationtoken and return it
Change Run method to validate the token, Let's change Run method to call validate method and returns text response, Note that we changed function authorization level to function level
[FunctionName("EmailTrigger")]
public static HttpResponseMessage Run([HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "get", "post", Route = null)]HttpRequestMessage req, TraceWriter log)
{
log.Info("C# HTTP trigger function processed a requesttt.");
string validationToken;
if (GetValidationToken(req, out validationToken))
{
return PlainTextResponse(validationToken);
}
return new HttpResponseMessage();
}
Let's implement token validation method as follows, We have to import Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities to do that
private static bool GetValidationToken(HttpRequestMessage req, out string token)
{
var query = QueryHelpers.ParseQuery(req.RequestUri.Query);
token = query.FirstOrDefault(w => w.Key == "validationToken").Value;
return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(token);
}
Let's return validation token after code validation succeeds like this
private static HttpResponseMessage PlainTextResponse(string text)
{
HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage()
{
StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK,
Content = new StringContent(text, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "text/plain")
};
return response;
}
Let's publish latest function app to azure
After publishing function app to azure, you can see function.json file authLevel has been changed to function
5.4 Configure subscription API on mail box
Let's go to Graph Explorer and try to create a subscription, we have implemented our function to return validationtoken when it has a valid token, so lets see how it works
You can see, we got 201 success status code, subscription is created and response is returned with an identifier
We have called POST /subscriptions request with following json body, note that expiration date should be within 36 hours from now
{
"changeType": "created,updated",
"notificationUrl": "https://mailtrigger.azurewebsites.net/api/EmailTrigger? code=rxUodDSB3cdrlVrFgCfT4SiC9eOBKqwxDNsAcmgndHQIpEWepYgx5w==",
"resource": "me/mailFolders('SentItems')/messages",
"expirationDateTime":"2018-06-13T18:23:45.9356913Z",
"clientState": "subscription-identifier"
}
We passed *https://mailtrigger.azurewebsites.net/api/EmailTrigger?code=rxUodDSB3cdrlVrFgCfT4SiC9eOBKqwxDNsAcmgndHQIpEWepYgx5w==* as notificationUrl,
When its creating the subscription, it sends a request to validate the subscription with following url, https://mailtrigger.azurewebsites.net/api/EmailTrigger?validationToken=rxUodDSB3cdrlVrFgCfT4SiC9eOBKqwxDNsAcmgndHQIpEWepYgx5w==
If you ping the local url in postman, you can see it as below, it returns validationtoken in the response
Let's change Run method in function to process SentItems mail folder changes, Change Run method signature as a async method and add new code lines to process changes in mail box
public static async Task Run([HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "get", "post", Route = null)]HttpRequestMessage req, TraceWriter log)
{
var response = await ProcessWebhookNotificationsAsync(req, log, async hook =>
{
return await CheckForSubscriptionChangesAsync(hook.SubscriptionId, hook.Resource, log);
});
return response;
}
Implement ProcessWebhookNotificationsAsync method to process the request body, for the time being lets log the body of the request, so we can understand what kind of a notification comes
private static async Task ProcessWebhookNotificationsAsync(HttpRequestMessage req, TraceWriter log, Func> processSubscriptionNotification)
{
// Read the body of the request and parse the notification
string content = await req.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
log.Verbose($"Raw request content: {content}");
return req.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
}
Let's implement CheckForSubscriptionChangesAsync method to return a bool value as below
private static async Task CheckForSubscriptionChangesAsync(string subscriptionId, string resource, TraceWriter log)
{
return true;
}
Let's publish the function app and lets see what type of a notification comes when we send an email, i sent this simple email and its available in SentItems folder
You can see the function log as below
Let's extract the notification message and analyze it further, When the subscribed resource changes, it sends notification data as below, You can see the resource url like this, it shows something with user messages, Users/5856adc9-b5f4-4c7c-b972-b61c85eb1a75/Messages/AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA=
2018-06-12T05:14:13.896 [Debug] Raw request content: {"value":[
{
"subscriptionId":"74d1bb75-fcbf-4ab1-acaf-d2cf10cfcb85",
"subscriptionExpirationDateTime":"2018-06-13T18:23:45.9356913+00:00",
"changeType":"created",
"resource":"Users/5856adc9-b5f4-4c7c-b972-b61c85eb1a75/Messages/AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA=",
"resourceData":
{
"@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Graph.Message",
"@odata.id":"Users/5856adc9-b5f4-4c7c-b972-b61c85eb1a75/Messages/AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA=", "@odata.etag":"W/\"CQAAABYAAAAspzQl+QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAMIFQ3f\"", "id":"AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA="
},
"clientState":"subscription-identifier"
},
{
"subscriptionId":"11937f92-0520-4f44-bf8a-5c32b6cbd7aa",
"subscriptionExpirationDateTime":"2018-06-13T18:23:45.9356913+00:00",
"changeType":"created",
"resource":"Users/5856adc9-b5f4-4c7c-b972-b61c85eb1a75/Messages/AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA=",
"resourceData":
{
"@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Graph.Message",
"@odata.id":"Users/5856adc9-b5f4-4c7c-b972-b61c85eb1a75/Messages/AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA=", "@odata.etag":"W/\"CQAAABYAAAAspzQl+QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAMIFQ3f\"", "id":"AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA="
},
"clientState":"subscription-identifier"
},
Graph subscription notifies the new email messages as above, lets try to process them in following method, pass the notification string to WebhookNotification class and process it
private static async Task ProcessWebhookNotificationsAsync(HttpRequestMessage req, TraceWriter log, Func> processSubscriptionNotification)
{
// Read the body of the request and parse the notification
string content = await req.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
log.Verbose($"Raw request content: {content}");
var webhooks = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(content);
if (webhooks?.Notifications != null)
{
// Since webhooks can be batched together, loop over all the notifications we receive and process them separately.
foreach (var hook in webhooks.Notifications)
{
log.Info($"Hook received for subscription: '{hook.SubscriptionId}' Resource: '{hook.Resource}', changeType: '{hook.ChangeType}'");
try
{
await processSubscriptionNotification(hook);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
log.Error($"Error processing subscription notification. Subscription {hook.SubscriptionId} was skipped. {ex.Message}", ex);
}
}
// After we process all the messages, return an empty response.
return req.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
}
else
{
log.Info($"Request was incorrect. Returning bad request.");
return req.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
}
}
Add WebhookNotification helper class with array of notifications
private class WebhookNotification
{
[JsonProperty("value")]
public SubscriptionNotification[] Notifications { get; set; }
}
Add new class called SubscriptionNotification to hold the notification details
private class SubscriptionNotification
{
[JsonProperty("clientState")]
public string ClientState { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("resource")]
public string Resource { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("subscriptionId")]
public string SubscriptionId { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("changeType")]
public string ChangeType { get; set; }
}
Change the implementation in CheckForSubscriptionChangesAsync method, It needs to get the accesstoken to connect to Graph API and retrieve the email body. Let's see how we can get an accesstoken later in this post.
You can create a httpclient and provide Graph API base url with resource url we got from the notification in function app, after getting the response, we can extract the subject and content properties like this
private static async Task CheckForSubscriptionChangesAsync(string resource, TraceWriter log)
{
bool success = false;
// Obtain an access token
string accessToken = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AccessToken", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
log.Info($"accessToken: {accessToken}");
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
// Send Graph request to fetch mail
HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/" + resource);
request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", accessToken);
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(request).ConfigureAwait(continueOnCapturedContext: false);
log.Info(response.ToString());
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
JObject obj = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result);
string subject = (string)obj["subject"];
log.Verbose($"Subject : {subject}");
string content = (string)obj["body"]["content"];
log.Verbose($"Email Body : {content}");
success = true;
}
return success;
}
You can see the complete *Run *method as follows, At the first run, Graph API is going to send a request to *function app *with validationtoken, if it returns the *token *again, its a valid notification url. Then its going to register a web hook subscription with function app url.
When email sent from your mail box, it sends a notification to registered *web hook url *and from function app its going to process the notification
[FunctionName("EmailTrigger")]
public static async Task Run([HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "get", "post",
Route = null)]HttpRequestMessage req, TraceWriter log)
{
log.Info("C# HTTP trigger function processed a request.");
string validationToken;
if (GetValidationToken(req, out validationToken))
{
return PlainTextResponse(validationToken);
}
//Process each notification
var response = await ProcessWebhookNotificationsAsync(req, log, async hook =>
{
return await CheckForSubscriptionChangesAsync(hook.Resource, log);
});
return response;
}
5.5 Generate access token & run the application
Open postman, go to Authorization tab, you will see Type drop down, from there select *OAuth 2.0
*
Click on Get New Access Token button to get an access token to connect to *Graph API
*
You can see a window like this, we have to give authorization urls and application specific details to get an access token, You can give a name for this token, in this example it's *AADGraph
*
You have to provide the Auth URL as https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize that used to be the redirect url in office 365 app registration
Access token URL should be https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token with token endpoint
If you remember, we registered an application to connect to *Office365 *as shown below
You have to find your Application Id & client secret, Let's navigate to application details as below, Copy Application Id & *Application secret, *If you cant remember the secret, you can click on Generate New Password and you will get a new secret
You have to provide a value for scope, https://graph.microsoft.com/mail.readwrite, we have to get read write permission in your mail box. you can leave the Grant type value as it is, Authorization Code and click on *Request Token
*
You will prompt to this screen, select your account
You can see access token and expiry time as below, click on Use Token to get the *access token
*
Then you can see Authorization key & token is added in headers section as below
If you remember, in our function app log, we found resource url is written like this, Users/5856adc9-b5f4-4c7c-b972-b61c85eb1a75/Messages/AAMkAGNkYmExZTUyLTY2ZWEtNDMwZC1hN2ZiLTAyNGY2NjNhMTYyNgBGAAAAAABRKYBMmikcRpuYs9cJmo5oBwAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAAAAAEJAAAspzQl_QVxTLNPv1rnaRExAAIvUGydAAA=
Let's try to get the email message with this url & registered access token, We have to get the Graph API url *https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/* and append the mail message url to that
You can see the email message along with some metadata
We have to provide this access token as a configuration to our function app You can see AccessToken is added to Application settings as below
We have provided the access token to connect to your email box and read email content, Let's see how it actually works with Function App, Open your app and click on Run, it shows 400 as response code since we haven't got any notifications
Let's send an email like this to test our function app
You can see the function log window like this, it has printed email subject as below
Email body is printed with all the style changes like this
6 Download
6.1 TechNet Gallery
Source code can be downloaded from here, .NET Core app tracks changes in mail box
6.2 GitHub
You can clone this repository from git hub Track mail box changes using Graph API on .NET Core
7 Conclusion
In this article, we created a function in .NET Core and published it into *Azure Function App. *We used subscription API in Microsoft Graph to subscribe to a resource, in this example resource is SentItems folder in mail box. When we send an email from our mail box it will notify to the published function with email details, We used a preview version of Azure Function App on top of .NET Core
We had to pass an authentication token to read an email, to retrieve the token should ping to redirect url in Office 365 app registration, Graph application id, password with required scope
8 References
- Azure Blob storage bindings for Azure Functions
- Azure Functions runtime versions overview
- Azure Functions scale and hosting
- Overview of Microsoft Graph
- Graph Explorer
- Subscription resource type
- Create subscription