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Mobile Secretary - v1.0 Categorie: Phone Edition
Mobile Secretary allows your Pocket PC Phone Edition to automatically respond
to a missed call with a custom text message and optionally with your current
calendar information. You can customize the messages for various groups of
people as well.
There are 2 built-in groups. The "<Default>" group is for people you have in
your contact database : if someone calls from their home phone number, the text
message will be sent to their mobile phone. The "<Unknown Caller>" group
applies to others. Of course you can customize these groups and create as many
as you want.
There is one more useful feature if you forward your calls to another mobile
number : Mobile Secretary can forward SMS too.
A very useful app that people who wanted to contact you may appreciate.
Author: Brian Cross
Date: 10-29-2006
Links: Web Site
Rating: 7/10
Size: 48kB
Hits: 1853
Download: Download ( ARM/XSCALE )
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/10/23/the-mobile-secretary.aspx
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The Mobile Secretary
I often invite my friends out to see a live band, a movie, or some other
function where I won't be able to hear my phone ring or be able to answer it.
Usually, there is always one or two people who don't exactly make it on time
(sometimes that is me, but that's another story for another day) and end up
calling me to find out where we are sitting or if the evening's plans have
changed. But, since I am not able to answer the call, they just get my
voicemail. Not too informative for them.
I'd like to introduce (or reintroduce, if you attended my session at MEDC 2006
in Las Vegas) an app that I call The Mobile Secretary. This app allows your
Windows Mobile device to automatically respond to a missed call with a custom
text message and optionally with your current calendar information. You can
customize the messages for various groups of people as well. What if someone
calls from their home phone number? Well, as long as you have a contact's
various phone numbers in your contact database, the text message will always
be sent to their mobile phone.
There are 2 standard groups that you start off with. The "<Default>" group
applies to a caller who can be found in your contacts, but has not been
assigned to a group you created. The "<Unknown>" group applies to a caller
that cannot be found in your contacts. You can create as many other groups
that you'd like. Contacts can only belong to one group at a time.
Sometimes I use a secondary mobile phone that has a different phone number from
my main phone. In this case, I usually forward my calls to the secondary phone
so that friends can still reach me. This works well until someone sends a text
message to my main phone. So, I added a text message forwarding feature to
The Mobile Secretary. Just enter in the phone number in which to forward to,
and all text messages sent to your device will be resent to the other device.
There is also the option of appending the sender info to the message so that
you know who it originally came from as well.
This is an enhanced version of the application that I used to demonstrate some
of our .Net APIs that were introduced in Windows Mobile 5.0. In addition to
Windows Mobile 5.0, you'll also need the .Net Compact Framework v2 installed
on your device.
I'll be posting the source code soon so that you can see how this app works as
well as get a survey of the Windows Mobile .net APIs.
Some of the managed APIs that are used in this app include:
The State and Notification Broker (SystemState Class)
Send a Text Message (SmsMessage class)
Sms Interception (MessageInterceptor Class)
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
Contact Class
Appointment Class
Custom Properties
SelectPictureDialog
ChooseContactDialog
Phone class
Hope you find it useful as an application, a sample, or both!
Published Monday, October 23, 2006 11:33 AM by BCross
Filed under: BCross
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