SMS Messages with Windows Mobile 5.0

A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application .  Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution lists. I learned a lot that night.

So you've always been able to send SMS messages with Smartphone, but it's a lot easier now.  Sending them isn't a big deal though. The cool thing is intercepting them.  To that end, the Message Interceptor class makes it quite easy:

• Create a module level variable (or whatever scope you need it).

      private MessageInterceptor Interceptor;

• Instantiate it in the constructor

      Interceptor = new MessageInterceptor(InterceptionAction.NotifyAndDelete, false);

• Specify a InterceptionAction property. (Notify or NotifyAndDelete) - those should be self explanatory [See above]
• Specify if you want it to use the Form's thread (a must if you want to update the UI) [see above]
• Wire up a handler.

Interceptor.MessageReceived +=new MessageInterceptorEventHandler(Interceptor_MessageReceived);

• Cast the e.Message object in the handler as a SmsMessage and use accordingly

void Interceptor_MessageReceived(object sender, MessageInterceptorEventArgs e)

   SmsMessage IncomingMessage = (e.Message as SmsMessage);

   String[] ImportantStuff = new String[]{"Dog pooping",

                                          "Vista Launch",

                                          "Would you care to explain THIS?",

                                          "Vicodin ES",

                                          "Camel Toe",

                                          "Kim",

                                          "Mom",

                                           "EDC"};

foreach(String s in ImportantStuff){

if(IncomingMessage.Body.IndexOf(s)> -1){

SmsMessage OutgoingMessage = new SmsMessage(e.Message.From.Address, "This is the Cuckoobot, I'm handling Bill's messages, he'll be in touch shortly");

OutgoingMessage.Send();//Yes, I know this isn't optimal - it's demo code.

else{

SmsMessage OutgoingMessage = new SmsMessage(e.Message.From.Address, "This is the Cuckoobot. Your message isn't important and will have to wait.");