R – read stored SMS entries on the Windows Mobile phone from a .NET CF application

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Looking at writing an application using the .NET Compact framework to extract SMS messages on my Windows Mobile phone. I basically want to be able to export the stored message in the inbox so that they could be imported to Excel or some other program for formatting and storage.

In my personal case, I have a Treo 700w. I've written some small apps under the Compact Framework before, but I can't find anything referencing where the text messages are stored. I have some 7000 messages stored in my phone and I'd like to extract them to free up memory. I may have to keep these messages around for legal reasons so I'd like to preserve them 'offline' as far as my phone is concerned.

Has anyone ever had to do this?

Best Answer

If you are targeting WM6, you can use the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace to access SMS messages, particularly the SmsAccount class.

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System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location¹

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¹As per Mr.Mindor's comment:
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location returns where the executing assembly is currently located, which may or may not be where the assembly is located when not executing. In the case of shadow copying assemblies, you will get a path in a temp directory. System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase will return the 'permanent' path of the assembly.

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Use Content Resolver ("content://sms/inbox") to read SMS which are in inbox.

// public static final String INBOX = "content://sms/inbox";
// public static final String SENT = "content://sms/sent";
// public static final String DRAFT = "content://sms/draft";
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox"), null, null, null, null);

if (cursor.moveToFirst()) { // must check the result to prevent exception
    do {
       String msgData = "";
       for(int idx=0;idx<cursor.getColumnCount();idx++)
       {
           msgData += " " + cursor.getColumnName(idx) + ":" + cursor.getString(idx);
       }
       // use msgData
    } while (cursor.moveToNext());
} else {
   // empty box, no SMS
}

Please add READ_SMS permission.

I Hope it helps :)

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