Programmatically send SMS in windows phone 8

Question

Is it possible to send SMS programmatically in Windows Phone 8? I've looked around a bit, and to my surprice, didn't find anything... :s

Answer 1

Please see the tutorial in the following link

http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/tips/How-to-compose-and-send-SMS-from-Windows-Phone-apps

This should help. Please note to finally send a SMS user interaction is a Must, you can not automate that. The user must tap on send SMS button

full 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 PhoneApp1.Resources;
using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace PhoneApp1
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        // Constructor
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            // Sample code to localize the ApplicationBar
            //BuildLocalizedApplicationBar();
        }

        private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            SmsComposeTask smsComposeTask = new SmsComposeTask();

            smsComposeTask.To = _Number.Text;
            smsComposeTask.Body = _Message.Text;
            smsComposeTask.Show();
        }

        // Sample code for building a localized ApplicationBar
        //private void BuildLocalizedApplicationBar()
        //{
        //    // Set the page's ApplicationBar to a new instance of ApplicationBar.
        //    ApplicationBar = new ApplicationBar();

        //    // Create a new button and set the text value to the localized string from AppResources.
        //    ApplicationBarIconButton appBarButton = new ApplicationBarIconButton(new Uri("/Assets/AppBar/appbar.add.rest.png", UriKind.Relative));
        //    appBarButton.Text = AppResources.AppBarButtonText;
        //    ApplicationBar.Buttons.Add(appBarButton);

        //    // Create a new menu item with the localized string from AppResources.
        //    ApplicationBarMenuItem appBarMenuItem = new ApplicationBarMenuItem(AppResources.AppBarMenuItemText);
        //    ApplicationBar.MenuItems.Add(appBarMenuItem);
        //}
    }
}

Answer 2

From the documentation : How to use the SMS compose task for Windows Phone