How do I send an email from a Windows Phone 8 application?

Question

In a Windows Forms project, I used the SmtpClient and MailMessage class in order to send information by email.

Is there an equivalent for Windows Phone 8?

Answer 1

If you are developing a Universal WinRT Windows Phone application, you could use the Windows.ApplicationModel.Email.EmailMessage namespace as the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks.EmailComposeTask namespace doesn't work on WinRT application.

Then, uses this code to create and launch a new email.

// Create your new email message.
var em = new EmailMessage() ;

// Add as much EmailRecipient in it as you need using the following method.
em.To.Add(new EmailRecipient("yourname@yourdomain.com"));
em.Subject = "Your Subject...";
em.Body = "Your email body...";
// You can add an attachment that way.
//em.Attachments.Add(new EmailAttachment(...);

// Show the email composer.
await EmailManager.ShowComposeNewEmailAsync(em);