This sample shows how to use the SMS API (Windows.Devices.Sms) using following scenarios:
- Send text message.
- Set filter rules for registering with background infrastructure and then receiving the SMS based on filter rules.
Windows.Devices.Sms is a low-level API intended for use by mobile operators to push information to apps on devices by using SMS as the signaling channel. For example, a mobile operator may send a specially-formatted SMS message to signal the voicemail app that the number of unread messages has changed.
If you are interested in writing a chat app for sending and receiving messages that are visible to end users, then use the Windows.ApplicationModel.Chat namespace instead.
This sample accesses privileged APIs used by mobile broadband operators. Hence it requires the cellularMessaging capability, a special-use capability, to be declared in the package manifest.
- This sample will not pass WACK because it uses a special-use capability.
- This sample requires phone devices to be OEM developer unlocked.
Hardware: Phone device or PC with mobile broadband modem
Client: Windows 10
Phone: Windows 10
- If you download the samples ZIP, be sure to unzip the entire archive, not just the folder with the sample you want to build.
- Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
- Starting in the folder where you unzipped the samples, go to the Samples subfolder, then the subfolder for this specific sample, then the subfolder for your preferred language (C++, C#, or JavaScript). Double-click the Visual Studio 2015 Solution (.sln) file.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.
The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.
- Select Build > Deploy Solution.
- To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or selectDebug > Start Without Debugging.