SMSAccount Class on Windows Mobile 6.1

Question

I'm writing an application for a Windows Mobile phone in VB.Net, and I would like to read SMSs from the phone's memory. According to MSDN, the SMSAccount class is what I need:

'SmsAccount Class
'Provides access to a Outlook Mobile Short Message Service (SMS) account, the account's SMS folders, and the SMS messages they contain.

However, the SMSAccount Class only has one interesting method, aka Send (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsmobile.pocketoutlook.smsaccount_members.aspx), and I can't figure out how to access the actual messages.

I've found examples on the web which suggest to use the smsAccount.Inbox property, which I can't manage to find. I got this code for example :

Dim smsAcc As SmsAccount
Dim smsFdr As SmsMessageFolder
smsFdr = smsAcc.Inbox

But I cant find either of the SmsMessageFolder class and the Inbox property.

How do I access smss?

Thanks for your help, CFP.

Answer 1

I found this link...

Getting SMS Messages from Pocket Outlook in Windows Mobile 5

It seems to suggest there is no easy way to do it. I noticed when I did a search for this that this company do a third party implementation. I don't know much about them except it seems to be the suggested answer on several forums (so you may already know about it).

Answer 2

You may want to go native or write your own wrapper for some native implementations (1) (2)