Mobile Secretary To The Rescue!

[Jon Westfall]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/10/23/the-mobile-secretary.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile...-secretary.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"I often invite my friends out to see a live band, a movie, or some other function where I won't be able to hear my phone ring or be able to answer it. Usually, there is always one or two people who don't exactly make it on time (sometimes that is me, but that's another story for another day) and end up calling me to find out where we are sitting or if the evening's plans have changed. But, since I am not able to answer the call, they just get my voicemail. Not too informative for them. I'd like to introduce (or reintroduce, if you attended my session at MEDC 2006 in Las Vegas) an app that I call The Mobile Secretary. This app allows your Windows Mobile device to automatically respond to a missed call with a custom text message and optionally with your current calendar information. You can customize the messages for various groups of people as well. What if someone calls from their home phone number? Well, as long as you have a contact's various phone numbers in your contact database, the text message will always be sent to their mobile phone."</i><br /><br />Well, you could pay for an app to do this, or you could download the Mobile Secretary from the Windows Mobile Team Blog site! The source will be posted soon as well, so in addition, you can see how managed API calls are executed to create such a mobile wonder.

[Marcel_Proust]

Neat.
I've been doing something similar with skschema from sktools. Pretty easy to watch for a number and then execute any script you want. More flexible, but requires a bit more work.

[tabenate]

Great find Jon, :D Thanks

Just when I was looking for exactly this kind of application!



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[victore]

I would love to install this app, but it requires Compact Framework, which I've never gotten to install quite right on a storeage card. Is there a way I can get most of the files to live off my external card instead of taking space on my device?

[Nurhisham Hussein]

I would love to install this app, but it requires Compact Framework, which I've never gotten to install quite right on a storeage card. Is there a way I can get most of the files to live off my external card instead of taking space on my device?

Not .Net Compact Framework - as that replaces some system files, you HAVE to put it in main memory.

[tabenate]

You CAN install .NET CF 2 SP1 on a storage card. Check out this article by Menneisyys
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&amp;cat=67

[victore]

tabenate, thanks for the link to the article. while it looks complicated, i'm pretty sure it'll be worth it. i'm going to try this over the course of a few days and report back.

[Jason Lee]

With the newest .net frame work simply tell it to install to the storage card and around 4mb goes to the card. It only needs about 1mb on the internal memory. Way better than before where all 5mb went to internal memory. No hacking required.. Just choose storage card as the install destination when asked.

[Darius Wey]

Source code is available (http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/10/29/the-mobile-secretary-source-code.aspx), if any of you are interested.