Reading SMS Inbox using VB.NET

Hi everyone. I'm currently doing a school project, which require me to build a Mobile Application which is strictly using VB.NET as the language and the Windows Mobile SDK 6.

Here is my problem. I have found out how to recieve SMS messages when they are incoming and get their body text and use it to do something.

However, I now need to get the existing messages in the SMS inbox as well as delete them.

From my search on Google, I get plenty of weird results and codings ranging from C# to C++. However, my project require me to do it in VB.NET and that's the only language out of the three I know, so I cannot translate manually from C++ to VB.NET.

So can anyone kindly please guide me and my project team on this? I appreciate it and thanks in advance.

If you have C# examples you can convert the to VB with many internet converters.
Also i think this forum has tons of examples for sms's . Do a search.

You need to check if it is available using the pocket outlook name space
I seem to remember it isn't easily do-able without using MAPI or a 3rd party tool like InTheHand

Thanks for the quick responses. However, samples related to SMS inbox I find are all in C++. I'm manage to only find one person posting the same question without any responses. I'm not very sure.

Oh come on. Did you search?

Anyway.

Here (C++,C#,VB)
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=498642

Thanks, I'm trying to study the articles found in the links of the thread, but since I'm new in this area, I'm pretty much do not understand most of the things there.

Basicly, I need to learn how to delete an SMS from the Windows Mobile 6 phone's inbox and I can specify the conditions to do it.

Condition can include date recieved, sent by or by some primary index.

Well i'm no expert in WM6 (pete can help you out) but i think there is a new outlook class that can do what you want very easy.

Thanks. I really hope someone could guide me along as I'm still pretty lost.

Code:

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Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Windows.Forms

Imports Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms
Imports Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.MessageInterception

Public Class Class1

Private Sub CountSMS()


  Try
            Dim smsAcc As SmsAccount
            Dim smsFdr As SmsMessageFolder
            smsFdr = smsAcc.Inbox
          MessageBox.Show("SMS Count: " & smsFdr.Count)
        Catch
          MessageBox.Show("Error: Unable to count!")
        End Try

End Sub

End Class

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Recently I went to get the InTheHand Library evaluation version to try. I went to experiment with the SMS Inbox and found one problem. I always get a NullReferenceException with the SmsAccount.

I would like to ask, how do you retrieve the SMS Account from your windows mobile device?

Thanks

Sorry... I really need help urgently... Can somebody who are very keen in this area please help me out? I really appreciate it.

I think MAPI is the only option, and the InTheHand control wraps MAPI for you. There is a good article here that should help, although it is written in c# you can use a translation site. It should give you more insight.

Dim sess As New InTheHand.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.OutlookSession
Dim smsAcc As SmsAccount = sess.SmsAccount
Dim smsFdr As SmsMessageFolder
smsFdr = smsAcc.Inbox
MsgBox("SMS Count: " & smsFdr.Count)

You can try this page of msdn. Here you get code and explanation of how to intercept incoming sms messages using vb.net .
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932385.aspx

why did you bring up a thread that died on 28-Oct-2008?