Hi!
I need to create a .net windows-app, which can be used to send an sms via a smartphone - when the phone is connected via activesync. Plain and simple - I hope. ;)

I have tried googling on this topic, but with no luck. Found samples on how to send sms from smartphone-apps, but no luck with this. I also did a lot of reading on this site, and in the forum - and I am still pretty close to where i started....

I also tried the RAPIVB sample, which connects via activesync, and gets me some of the way... But getting from there to sending an SMS... [?]

I use either VS2003 or VS2005 beta.

Thanks in advance

- Klaus

Klaus,

did you look into OpenNETCF.Phone.Sms Namespace? The Sms class owns a method called SendMessage and this method sends out SMS via PPC PE or SP. Following code is C# and works at least for me:

int smsHandle;

Sms mySMS=new Sms(SmsMode.Send);
SmsAddress myAddr=new SmsAddress();
SmsMessageStatus myStat=new SmsMessageStatus();

myAddr.Address="+491707923910"; // put your destination address here - with international prefix
myAddr.Type=AddressType.International;  // this tells SendMessage that we have an international destination
smsHandle=mySMS.SendMessage(myAddr,"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog");

Does this code do what you expect? I've used this code for SDF 1.2 installed on VS2003, so you don't need to go for a beta.

Regards ukiller

Hi Ukiller, thanks for your reply.

The code you post will send an sms from a smartphone-application. That is not what I want.

I want to send an SMS from a windows-application (on my pc) VIA my smartphone, which is connected via Activesync.

Maybe the solution is to create an application on the smartphone (or a library anyway) which can send an sms, and then create and application on the desktop-pc, which will communicate with the smartphone-app via activesync.

One option is to make a windows-app, which saves sms'es as xml on the local pc, then transfers the xml-file to the smartphone via activesync - where it is thrown in a special directory. On the smartphone an application is monitoring changes to that dir - opens the xml-file, reads the destination phonenumber and text - and sends it.

I just thought - there must be a better way. :)

So why do you go through the AS hassle and don't use your SP as a modem device from your PC? Then you could use AT commands to achieve what you want to do. One possible soultion is to use the SP built in bluetooth profile for modem (if you SP can bluetooth at all) and use this for SMS transmission. There surely are several ways to achieve what you desire without going through AS at all.

Regards ukiller

Just one thought for RAPI: create a console application for your SP that takes two arguments (destination phone no and SMS text) and execute this app under PC control.

Regards ukiller

quote:

---

Originally posted by ukiller

So why do you go through the AS hassle and don't use your SP as a modem device from your PC?

---

Because I did not know it was an option! [:D]

Ill look into it, thanks for your valuable input! [:)]

Hi ukiller,

This was very helpful. However, I am trying to retrieve all SMS stored in my pocketpc into my application. How can i do this?

I have researched EVERYWHERE and i cant seem to find this. Please advice.

Thanks

 

You need to go low-level and use MAPI on the device to read the contents on the SMS store.  Once that hurdle is cleared, you need figure out a way of getting the data retrieved via MAPI back to the desktop. RAPI (via a custom RAPI Extension method) could be an option.

There is a really cool application that sends sms messages via activesync and also allows you to view a sent history on the computer, and best of all the application is free, see here http://www.dnisoftware.co.uk/content/SendSMS.aspx

 DNI Software has moved it to http://www.dnisoftware.co.uk/content/Free+Software.aspx

Hello 

that software SendSMS works great for me, but in order to prevent an error message on each mesage sent, i had to manually create a directory "SendSMS" for my phone in \Application Data\ (in the phone storage, not the Storage Card). This folder will then contain a file SendSMS_Log.txt for the history of the sms sent with that program