How to send email in Windows Phone 7 using c# ?

In one of my previous post , i wrote about how one can send SMS in Windows Phone 7  using c# . This blog post focusses on sending a email in windows phone 7 using c# .


Similar to sending SMS , sending email can be achieved with the EmailComposeTask .


EmailComposeTask is a launcher that allows the windows phone 7 app to launch the email App aling with the message to be displayed which allows the users to send the email from your app.


To use the EmailComposeTask , you must include the namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks .
Using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks ;
This namespace can be found in the Microsoft.Phone.dll
To send the email , create an instance of the EmailComposeTask and set the appropriate properties like
To , Subject and Body of the Email .
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
     EmailComposeTask emailcomposer = new EmailComposeTask();
     emailcomposer.To = "test@ginktage.com";
     emailcomposer.Subject = "subject from test app";
     emailcomposer.Body = "This is a test mail from Email Composer";
     emailcomposer.Show();
}
When the Show method is called , the EmailComposer is opened which lets the user to click the send button to send the email .
Note that you might the following message when email account is not set up in your windows phone 7 .

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