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This should be a very straight forward question, but I can’t find an answer.
Right now I have a windows service that uses a timer to kick off scheduled emails and do other scheduled tasks. What’s the best way to do the equivalent with Azure?
You can run a background thread, launched from your Run(), that does nothing but sleep for a while and then execute some scheduled-email code.
Alternatively, you can make this task queue-driven, and place a queue message with an initial invisibility timeout set (so that the queue message won’t be retrievable until a certain time period elapses.
In either case, you’ll want to use an external SMTP service. SendGrid just announced a free tier for Windows Azure users, along with supporting libraries. See details about this here.