Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Creating the function

Now that we have a Service Bus Queue set up, we are ready to create an Azure Function to receive the messages from the queue.

To create the function, execute the following steps:

1. To do so in Visual Studio, right-click on TextEvaluation project and click on Add -> New Item -> Azure Function and add a ProcessQueue function.
2. Fill in the required parameters as follows:
   • Type: ServiceBusQueueTrigger
   • Access rights: Listen
   • FunctionName: ProcessQueue
   • Connection: serviceBus
   • Queue name: emailqueue (lowercase)
3. Click on Create.
4. Add the setting for the Service Bus connection string to the root level ListenPolicy to local.settings.json:

        "serviceBus": "Endpoint=sb://textsentimentsb.servicebus .windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=ListenPolicy; ...