Introduction
Azure Communication Services allows you to easily add real-time multimedia voice, video, and telephony-over-IP communications features to your applications. The Communication Services client libraries also allow you to add chat and SMS functionality to your communications solutions.
You can use Communication Services for voice, video, text, and data communication in a variety of scenarios:
- Browser-to-browser, browser-to-app, and app-to-app communication
- Users interacting with bots or other services
- Users and bots interacting over the public switched telephony network
The objective of this module is to learn about the Azure Communication Services SMS capability. Sending SMS messages from code can be useful if you want to text-message a user when certain events are triggered, for example.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Create and configure an Azure Communication Services resource.
- Provision a phone number using the Azure portal.
- Send a text message from a console application.
Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with C#
- The latest version of the .NET Core client library
- An Azure account with an active subscription and a billing address in the United States. Create an account for free