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Windows Mobile 6 SMS app vb.net

Asked by: mamcw

Recently picked up a Motorola Q 9c with Windows Mobile 6 and I decided to write a small application to send stored SMS messages through Pocket Outlook.  I am developing in vs2005, Vb.Net  and I have installed the Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK and the Net CF Framework 2.0.2.  The problem I have is that when I send a message, for example "Hello",  the recipient receives "@H@e@l@l@o@.  How can I correct this?  I have attached the code I use to send an SMS message.  Put max points because this is annoying and I would like to get this resolved quickly.  Thanks in advance for your help.  

text1MenuItem_Click(ByVal sender as System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles text1MenuItem.Click
 
Dim SMS as New SmsMessage
Dim body as String = "Hello"
'Body of the message
SMS.Body = body
'Recipient
SMS.To.Add(New Recipient(123-456-7890))
'Send the Text Message
SMS.Send()
End Sub

                                  
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2008-01-15 at 10:39:49ID23084845
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Answers

 

by: Mikal613Posted on 2008-01-15 at 10:43:29ID: 20665177

im SMS as New SmsMessage
Dim body as String = "Hello"
'Body of the message
SMS.Body = body
'Recipient
SMS.To.Add(New Recipient("123-456-7890"))
'Send the Text Message
SMS.Send()
End Sub

 

by: mamcwPosted on 2008-01-15 at 10:55:43ID: 20665288

Mikal613,

Thanks for the post.  I did try the quotes but I still get the same result "Hello" ----> "@He@l@l@o@"

 

by: Mikal613Posted on 2008-01-15 at 11:02:03ID: 20665358

and if you take out the dashes? 12346789

 

by: Mikal613Posted on 2008-01-15 at 11:04:26ID: 20665383


    dim sMsg as SmsMessage = new SmsMessage()
   
 
    sMsg .Body = "Would you like to meet for lunch?"
    sMsg .To.Add(new Recipient("Person", "1243384484"))
    sMsg .RequestDeliveryReport = true
   
   
    sMsg .Send()
   
 

 

by: mamcwPosted on 2008-01-15 at 11:05:05ID: 20665392

Yeah, I tried that and still get same results.

 

by: mamcwPosted on 2008-01-15 at 11:06:10ID: 20665405

Wihoops I didn't see your last post, let me try it and I'll get back to you

 

by: mamcwPosted on 2008-01-15 at 11:18:06ID: 20665522

Still getting the @ between every character.  It also arbitrarily truncates the message.  Used "Lunch?" for the new message and the recipient got @L@u@n.  If I send through pocket outlook not using the app it is fine if I use this app it inserts the additional @ characters for me.

 

by: Mikal613Posted on 2008-01-15 at 11:30:02ID: 20665643

can we put a Try and Catch perhaps if there is an error.

 

by: mamcwPosted on 2008-01-15 at 11:37:27ID: 20665715

I put a Try and Catch at the SMS.Send() but did not get anything.

 

by: Mikal613Posted on 2008-01-15 at 11:38:17ID: 20665720

:(

 

by: kjetilroePosted on 2008-01-18 at 04:03:41ID: 20689446

Hey,

I think your problem is your character encoding. I just found a very good artickle on the web about someone else that has done something similar as you. I have not tried this my self, but you try it, and give me a msg about how it is going :-) :

http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/35757

 

by: mamcwPosted on 2008-01-21 at 13:34:11ID: 20709915

Well, I took back the phone last week and got another smart phone with Windows Mobile 5 and the code works fine.  I'm not sure if it is a Windows Mobile 6 OS problem or what.  Anyways, I am not sure what the protocol is here but I want to split the points between you both for trying to help me out.

Mikal613:  Thank you for the rapid responses.  The code you posted does work with the new phone.

kjetilroe:  Thank you for your response but I am not sure if it was an encoding problem.  As far as my understanding goes the SMSMessage class from the windows.mobile.pocketoutlook namespace  takes care of the encoding.  With the code above I can send the "Hello" sms message  just fine using Windows Mobile 5.  Either way I cannot test if it was an encoding problem since I got rid of the phone causing problem.

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