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I am running a .net MVC4 web application. I want to be able to hit an action on a controller, create an email and send it to my service bus queue to be processed (sent).
What are my options as far as creating a consumer for my queue?
I've considered creating another project that runs when the web app is started that continually checks the queue state and processes messages as they come in.
I was wondering if there were any other solutions to processing messages.
A second project that checks the queue and process messages is what I would do. Background processing belongs to background workers.
Just remember that you don't have to continuously monitor the queue, if you are using a Service Bus queue: plain Azure queues are non-blocking, but Service Bus queues offer blocking receive operations which block the calling thread until a message arrives on a queue or a specified timeout period has elapsed.
So you just have to call your receive function in a loop, and it will stay there and wait for the next call. You can read the initial paragraphs of this article: it is about performances, which is not your case, but the initial overview is good for grasping the fundamentals.
