May 12 2008
I have a Windows Mobile 5.0 cellphone and realized recently that all my text messages were locked up on the phone -- ActiveSync doesn't sync them. There's probably applications out there that will archive your text messages, but being a dev, I figured I'd do it myself. Unfortunately, the .NET libraries don't support querying the SMS message store directly, so I ended up using a third party library, In The Hand, which worked out quite nicely. The code was pretty darned simple; it took me a lot longer to realize that I needed to install the SDK certs onto my phone in order to deploy an application to the phone. I ended up also having to run the rapiconfig tool:
C:\Program Files\Windows CE Tools\wce500\Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK\Tools>rapiconfig /p SdkCerts.xml
This made everything happy (tip of the hat to Stuart Preston). But once I was able to talk to the phone, application development was quick. I just walk the different folders and built an XML file out of them. I figure I can work with the XML at some point if I want to do some visualization of my text history. Here's the code.
Now, I want to write a threaded text app. I know this is in Windows Mobile 6.1, but it would be handy to have on Windows Mobile 5.0. There's a few apps already out there that do this, but why buy it when you can build it?
