Sending Email in windows phone 8

Question

Hi Everybody

which API should i use to be able to send email from

windows phone 8?

thank you in advance

Answer 1

Hi Mohannad,

There is no such thing as Windows Phone 8.  Did you mean Metro style applications?  If so you can use the mailto: protocol in HTML5/JavaScript.  I don't think we have a specific example but if you 'bing' HTML mailto: or JavaScript mailto: you can find a lot of examples.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 2

In a Metro style app you can also use the share source contract to share data. Users can then select from their various email applications (Mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) for the share target.

See Sharing and exchanging data and the Sharing content source app sample

--Rob

Answer 3

If you're using XAML (not HTML/JS), you can still use the LaunchUriAsync method to open up the default mail client (or so it appears...)

eg:

Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("mailto:[e-mail]"));