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With the advent of more low-cost Voip IDD services, one may wish to store a few favorite IDD services. I wrote this simple application for Windows Mobile 2006 Professional Devices so that one can dial with pre-defined IDD prefixes.

You need at least .NET Compact Framework 2.0 to run MyIDDdialer.

Features:

• Manage IDD profiles
• Dial contact with selected IDD prefix
• Currently supports only Home, Work & Mobile numbers from PocketOutlook Contact items

Download MyIDDdialer (45) .
Transfer the file into your device via ActiveSync & run it from explorer to install.

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The author, of this software accepts no responsibility for damages resulting from the use of this product and makes no warranty or representation, either express or implied, including but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided “AS IS”, and you, its user, assume all risks when using it.

Very realistic, especially the old-”man”. It will be soon that we have such virtual presenter on our screens doing news or whatever…

There is an extremely easy way to intercept SMS in WM2005. Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook provides many useful objects to manipulate Pocket Outlook in WM devices. I am particularly interested with the MessageInterceptor object.

In this tutorial, I will share with you a simple Proof-of-Concept WM device application using MessageInterceptor object. This application intercepts a SMS and renders the message body into a QRcode on the form.

A free .NET QRcode encoder for both desktop and compact framework is found at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/qrcode.aspx

First things first

I assume you have/know the following:
• A WM2005 or above phone device to test with (I can rent you one…)
• Visual Studio 2005 with the relevant Windows Mobile SDK
• You know how to create a simple WM “device-application” project

Adding References & Namespaces

Add Microsoft.WindowsMobile & Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook

In your Form1.cs (or whatever your form class file is), add these:

using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook;
using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.MessageInterception;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using ThoughtWorks.QRCode.Codec;
using ThoughtWorks.QRCode.Codec.Data;
using ThoughtWorks.QRCode.Codec.Util;

Adding UI Elements

In this example, I used a PictureBox, Listbox & 2 Buttons.

Adding Interceptor object & handler

Declare MessageInterceptor in the class for the Form since we want to intercept message throughout the lifespan of the form. In other words, DO NOT CREATE a local object inside a method.

public partial class Form1 : Form

{
MessageInterceptor nSms;

public Form1()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

…

Instantiate the interceptor during Form load:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

nSms = new MessageInterceptor();

nSms.MessageReceived +=new MessageInterceptorEventHandler(nSms_MessageReceived);

}

In this case, nSms_MessageReceived is the delegated handler and it looks something like this:

void nSms_MessageReceived(object sender, MessageInterceptorEventArgs e)

{

if (e.Message is SmsMessage)

{

SmsMessage sms = (SmsMessage)e.Message;

listBox1.Items.Add(sms.Body);

createQR(sms.Body);

this.Show();

}

else

listBox1.Items.Add(“unknown message”);

listBox1.Items.Add(e.Message.From.Address.ToString());

listBox1.Items.Add(e.Message.From.Name.ToString());

}

Sending SMS

Sending SMS in a WM device app is a no brainer…

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

SmsMessage a = new SmsMessage(“91234567″, “The quick brown fox jump over the dead dog”);

a.Send();

}

Let’s waste some SMS

At this point in time, give yourself a pat and waste some SMS by sending some to the device running this application.

Anyone who’d experienced development with COM-based Pocket Outlook Object Model or POOM will appreciate this tutorial because it is now almost idiot-proof and painless compared to using POOM.

I deliberately left out the QRcode encoding and leave it to your imagination to what you can do with intercepted SMS. The reader may wish to explore the free QRcode encoder for some hands-on exercise.

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