CONTRIBUTING.md

Hello! Thank you for choosing to help contribute to one of the SendGrid open source projects. There are many ways you can contribute and help is always welcome. We simply ask that you follow the following contribution policies.

• Improvements to the Codebase
• Understanding the Code Base
• Testing
• Style Guidelines & Naming Conventions
• Creating a Pull Request
• Code Reviews

Improvements to the Codebase

We welcome direct contributions to the smtpapi-csharp code base. Thank you!

Development Environment

Install and Run Locally

Prerequisites

• .NET version 4.5.2
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 or greater

Initial setup:

git clone https://github.com/sendgrid/smtpapi-csharp.git

Open smtpapi-csharp/Smtpapi/SendGrid.SmtpApi.sln

Environment Variables

First, get your free SendGrid account here.

Next, update your Environment (user space) with your SENDGRID_USERNAME and SENDGRID_PASSWORD.

Execute:

See the examples folder to get started quickly.

Understanding the Code Base

/Smtpapi Example

Working examples that demonstrate usage.

/Smtpapi/HeaderTests

Unit tests

/Smtpapi/Smtpapi

Source code

Testing

All PRs require passing tests before the PR will be reviewed.

All test files are in the Smtpapi/HeaderTests directory.

For the purposes of contributing to this repo, please update the TestHeader.cs file with unit tests as you modify the code.

From the Visual Studio menu: Tests->Run->All Tests

Style Guidelines & Naming Conventions

Generally, we follow the style guidelines as suggested by the official language. However, we ask that you conform to the styles that already exist in the library. If you wish to deviate, please explain your reasoning. In this case, we generally follow the C# Naming Conventions and the suggestions provided by the Visual Studio IDE.

Creating a Pull Request

1. Fork the project, clone your fork, and configure the remotes:

   # Clone your fork of the repo into the current directory
   git clone https://github.com/sendgrid/smtpapi-csharp
   # Navigate to the newly cloned directory
   cd smtpapi-csharp
   # Assign the original repo to a remote called "upstream"
   git remote add upstream https://github.com/sendgrid/smtpapi-csharp

2. If you cloned a while ago, get the latest changes from upstream:

   git checkout <dev-branch>
   git pull upstream <dev-branch>

3. Create a new topic branch (off the main project development branch) to contain your feature, change, or fix:

   git checkout -b <topic-branch-name>

4. Commit your changes in logical chunks. Please adhere to these git commit message guidelines or your code is unlikely be merged into the main project. Use Git's interactive rebase feature to tidy up your commits before making them public.

4a. Create tests.

4b. Create or update the example code that demonstrates the functionality of this change to the code.

5. Locally merge (or rebase) the upstream development branch into your topic branch:

   git pull [--rebase] upstream main

6. Push your topic branch up to your fork:

   git push origin <topic-branch-name>

7. Open a Pull Request with a clear title and description against the main branch. All tests must be passing before we will review the PR.

Code Reviews

If you can, please look at open PRs and review them. Give feedback and help us merge these PRs much faster! If you don't know how, Github has some great information on how to review a Pull Request.