Making SMS in Windows Phone App

Making SMS in Windows Phone App

To launch SMS Compose from your application follow the below steps.

First include the following package in your code

      using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

 then use the following code to launch the SMS Compose Task.

      SmsComposeTask smsComposeTask = new SmsComposeTask();

      smsComposeTask.To = "7373925656";

      smsComposeTask.Body = "Thank you for reading my blog";

      smsComposeTask.Show();

I created a sample app which launches SMS Compose task whenever user click on a button.

Here is the MainPage.xaml Code of our application

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage

    x:Class="Compose_SMS.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"

    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"

    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"

    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"

    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"

    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>

            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>

            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>

        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->

        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">

            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="MY APPLICATION" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>

            <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="Compose SMS" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>

        </StackPanel>

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->

        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">

            <Button Content="Send SMS" Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="161,154,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="191" Click="button1_Click" />

        </Grid>

    </Grid>

    <!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar-->

    <!--<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>

        <shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True">

            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/>

            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/>

            <shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>

                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/>

                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/>

            </shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>

        </shell:ApplicationBar>

    </phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>-->

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

 

And I added the SMS Compose task code in the button click event as follow.

Here is my complete code for MainPage.xaml.cs page

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Documents;

using System.Windows.Input;

using System.Windows.Media;

using System.Windows.Media.Animation;

using System.Windows.Shapes;

using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;

using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace Compose_SMS

{

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        // Constructor

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            SmsComposeTask smsComposeTask = new SmsComposeTask();

            smsComposeTask.To = "7373925656";

            smsComposeTask.Body = "Thank you for reading my blog";

            smsComposeTask.Show();

        }

    }

}

 

This the output of my sample application 

 

Download Source Code 

File: Compose_SMS.zip (Size: 69 KB)