How to send sms in Windows Phone

Through SmsComposeTask class, we can send sms from one number to other numbers. In this application, first we get the number from contact list, after get the number we will send the sms on this. In previous versions of windows mobile where in an application could send text messages without the users permission, or even knowledge, The SmsComposeTask launches the messaging application with either(or both) the phone number or the message body specified. This class exist in Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace. Lets take a simple example for sending message to the sender.

Xaml code

<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Margin="24,151,0,10" Grid.RowSpan="2">
            <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="72" Margin="10,24,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="260" RenderTransformOrigin="0.173,0.208" Name="T1"/>

            <Button Content="get Number" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="270,26,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="176" Click="Button_Click"/>

            <Button Content="Send Sms" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="76,284,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="260" Click="Button_Click_1"/>

            <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="132" Margin="0,132,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="446" Name="msgbody"/>

        </Grid>

Business logic code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;
using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace phonetutorial
{
    public partial class getcontact : PhoneApplicationPage
    { 
        PhoneNumberChooserTask contact_detail = new PhoneNumberChooserTask();
        public getcontact()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            contact_detail.Completed += selectnumber;
        }

        private void selectnumber(object sender, PhoneNumberResult e)
        {
            T1.Text = e.PhoneNumber;
        }

        private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
           
            contact_detail.Show();
        }

        private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            SmsComposeTask sendsms = new SmsComposeTask();
            sendsms.To = T1.Text;
            sendsms.Body = msgbody.Text;
            sendsms.Show();

        }
    }
}

Code generate the following output

How to get phone number from their list of contacts in the windows phone

The PhoneNumberChooserTask class provide the way to retrieve the contact detail from windows phone. This class allow users to select a phone number from their list of contacts on the phone, you just need to create an instance of the PhoneNumberChooserTask and invoke its Show method. This class is exist in Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace.

XAML source code

 <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Margin="14,151,10,10" Grid.RowSpan="2">

            <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="72" Margin="10,24,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="260" RenderTransformOrigin="0.173,0.208" Name="T1"/>

            <Button Content="get Number" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="270,26,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="176" Click="Button_Click"/>

        </Grid>

Logic Code

using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace phonetutorial
{
    public partial class getcontact : PhoneApplicationPage
    { 
        PhoneNumberChooserTask contact_detail = new PhoneNumberChooserTask();
        public getcontact()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            contact_detail.Completed += selectnumber;
        }

        private void selectnumber(object sender, PhoneNumberResult e)
        {
            T1.Text = e.PhoneNumber;
        }

        private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
           
            contact_detail.Show();
        }
    }
}

Code generate the following output

This class is used where you want to select contacts which is inside in windows phone. Through this we can display all the contacts on the phone.

Bind ListBox with Image in windows Phone

Its a Great application in which we can develop products catalog application. Lets take a simple example to show product image with product name time. If you want to show image with  text, first to create class products.cs with two properties in the project. Now your code look like
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace WorldClock
{
    class products
    {
        public string  name { get; set; }
        public string imagepath { get; set; }
    }
}

Create a list collection with product type. Add some items into it. Now, after adding items, you can bind list with the list collection.
First to add ListBox in the page. Bind this with itemSource property, now add two control (Textblock and image) in DataTemplate.

<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding}" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" Margin="0,152,19,243" x:Name="list1">
                <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                        <Image x:Name=" img1" Source="{Binding ImagePath}" MaxWidth="50" MaxHeight="50" FlowDirection="LeftToRight" HorizontalAlignment="Left"></Image>
                            <TextBlock x:Name="t1" Text="{Binding timename}"></TextBlock>

                        </StackPanel>

                    </DataTemplate>

                   
                </ListBox.ItemTemplate>

            </ListBox>

create a list collection with product type in .cs file. Now add some items in list collection. Bind Listbox with list collection.

public partial class productitem : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        public productitem()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            List<products> p1 = new List<products>();
            p1.Add(new products() { name = "curd", imagepath = "image/curd.jpg" });
            p1.Add(new products() { name = "windows phone", imagepath = "image/phone.jpg" });
            p1.Add(new products() { name = "cold and flu", imagepath = "image/cold-and-flu.jpg" });
            list1.DataContext = p1;

        }
    }

Code Generate the following output

How to add item into the listBox in windows phone

ListBox is a container in which we can add strings. User can select by clicking. Article contain different topics , these are
 1. Add ListBox Control with items using XAML
 2. Add ListBox Control in code file


There are some basic steps to complete that tasks
Add ListBox control with items using XAML
Step-1 :  Add ListBox control in contentPanel using xaml code , now your code llok like
<ListBox x:Name=" ListBox1" >
 </ListBox>
Step-2 :  Open ListBox properties and select Items(collection) ellipse symbol. After pressing ellipse button , A new window will appear

Step-3 :  Using Object Collection Editor, add controls to the List Box by selecting controls from Dropdown List.

Step-4  : After adding controls, you can assign content property of them.
Step-5 : Now, Press Ok button after adding items.
Step-6 : Now , Your complete code look like

<ListBox x:Name=" L1" >
                <ListBoxItem Content="Apple"/>
                <ListBoxItem Content="Mango"/>
                <CheckBox Content="Male" IsChecked="True"/>

            </ListBox>

Code Generate the following output

Getting started with windows phone App C#

Now start code with windows phone, first to develop app in windows phone. Get the tool you need, build your first app and test it in your system simulator. you can run this in your phone also. Before learning this article, must to learn XAML syntax. After that you can easily transfer your skills to develop windows phone app that use xaml for the UI and c#. 

 

This topic contains the following sections.

Get set up

Create your first app

Get set up

Download the Windows Phone SDK 8.0, which includes all the tools you need to create Windows Phone apps: Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone, project templates for creating new Windows Phone apps, the Windows Phone emulator for testing, and more.

Create your first app

he first step in creating a Windows Phone app is to create a new project in Visual Studio.

To create the project

1. Make sure you’ve downloaded and installed the Windows Phone SDK. 
2. Launch Visual Studio from the Windows Start screen. If the Registration window appears, you can register the product, or you can temporarily dismiss the prompt.
3. Create a new project by selecting the FILE | New Project menu command.
4. In the New Project window, expand the installed Visual C# or Visual Basic templates, and then select the Windows Phone templates.
5. In the list of Windows Phone templates, select the Windows Phone App  template.
6. Add TextBlock from toolBox into ContentPanel, now your code look like

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

            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Hello World!" FontSize=" 30" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>

        </Grid>

Code Generate the following output

How to Submit data on DropDown Selection changed in MVC Razor

Submitting the form by button, programmer have to assign only the type of that button and on click this button all the data can be get on the server side. On drop-down change we have manually submit the form by either specifying "OnSelectionChanged" event or some jquery functions.

In earlier article I have created DropDownList in MVC, to submit the form we can simply use only submit function on change event of the list.

@Html.DropDownList("ddlname", "List to bind", "--default title--", new { onchange = "submit();" })

After writing this code on change it will post all the data on the form to server-side but programmer have to use same name in action method as used here “ddlname”. When we use view-model to bind the data then dropdown list’s code will be changed as:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Property , "List to bind", "--default title--", new { onchange = "submit();" })

This code will contains the value of the property of model as used here. The value will submit on change the selection of this drop-down list. Programmer can change other controls value by using this code.

Suppose we have to select country, state and city on the form in hierarchy manner. On change the country, states drop-down list should change and on change of state, city drop-down list should change. By implement this functionality we can use this submit functionality.

How to Use Multiple Submit Button in MVC Razor

The most common method to get the data on server from client side. Submit button on the form can be used to post all the form data to be used further by programmer. Generally one form only have a single submit because of user want to post data only once.

To submit data in different ways programmer can use more than one submit button. A form can have multiple submit buttons as per the requirement of programmer. We can send the button’s name on the button click.

The action should have the same name of the button to get the value of clicked button. Suppose all the button’s have same name as submit as written below:

<input type = "submit" name = "btnsubmit" value= "submit1" />
<input type = "submit" name = "btnsubmit" value= "submit2" />
<input type = "submit" name = "btnsubmit" value= "submit3" />

Now in controller’s action the variable should be of string type and name as “submit” as below:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SubmitData(string btnSubmit)
{
If (btnSubmit == "submit1")
{
//code to execute
}

If (btnSubmit == "submit2")
{
//code to execute
}

If (btnSubmit == "submit3")
{
//code to execute
}
}

According to this code we can implement different functionality on each submit button with all the data posted on the form. These button will only post the data containing as input on the form and also inside the form element.