This sample shows how to use the Windows 8.1 Mobile Broadband SMS API (Windows.Devices.Sms) with the Background Task API (Windows.ApplicationModel.Background) to send and receive SMS text messages.
It demonstrates how to:
- register a background work item based on an SMS message trigger and a mobile network operator message trigger.
- declare the SMS device capability.
- retrieve the contents of an SMS message and raise a toast from the background work item.
To obtain an evaluation copy of Windows 8.1, go to Windows 8.1.
To obtain an evaluation copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, go to Visual Studio 2013.
Note For Windows 8 app samples, download the Windows 8 app samples pack. The samples in the Windows 8 app samples pack will build and run only on Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.
Related topics
- Mobile Broadband on the Windows Hardware Dev Center
- BackgroundTaskCompletedEventHandler
- BackgroundTaskProgressEventHandler
- MobileBroadbandAccount
- NetworkOperatorNotificationTrigger
- SmsBinaryMessage
- SmsDevice
- SmsMessageReceivedEventArgs
- SmsTextMessage
- Windows 8 app samples
Related technologies
Windows.ApplicationModel.Background, Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators, Windows.Devices.SmsOperating system requirements
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Build the sample
- Start Visual Studio 2013 and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
- Go to the directory in which you unzipped the sample. Go to the directory named for the sample, and double-click the Visual Studio 2013 Solution (.sln) file.
- Press F7 or use Build > Build Solution to build the sample.
Run the sample
To run the C# sample after building it, press F5 (run with debugging enabled) or Ctrl+F5 (run without debugging enabled) from Visual Studio 2013 for Windows 8.1 (any SKU). (Or select the corresponding options from the Debug menu.)
To run the VB sample after building it, go to Build->Deploy Solution from the top menu within Visual Studio 2013 for Windows 8.1 (any SKU) after the sample has built. Click the SmsBackgroundTaskSample Windows SDK sample in App Launcher to launch the sample.
The SMS background task sample requires access to the mobile broadband network adaptor. For info about Mobile Broadband, see the Windows Hardware Dev Center.