Using SMS and MMS Toolkit with ASP.NET Visual Basic (MM4 Connection)

The SMS and MMS Toolkit is a software development kit (SDK) to enhance an application or script with SMS, MMS and Pager functionality.
An SMS messages can be sent using a GSM/GPRS modem, an SMPP provider, an HTTP compliant SMS provider or using a standard dialup or fixed-line SMS modem.
An MMS messages can be sent via a GSM/GPRS modem (MM1), an SMTP server (MM4) or an XML/SOAP compliant provider (MM7).

SMS features:

Send and receive numeric- and alphanumeric text SMS messages
Verify delivery of outgoing SMS messages
Support for multimedia SMS messages, including ringtones, pictures and logo's
Support for WAP Push, WAP Bookmarks, vCards, voicemail/e-mail/fax/MMS indications
Support for Unicode, to support foreign languages like Chinese, Turkisch, etc.
Support for multi-part messages, to allow messages longer than 160 characters
Support for GSM modems, GSM phones, SMS/HTTP providers, SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer) providers, TAP/XIO and UCP dial-in SMSC providers
Support Multi-threading environments. The component is thread-safe, which means it can be used in a multi-threaded environment
Samples included for various development platforms: MS Visual Basic, MS Visual Basic .NET, MS Visual C++, MS Visual Studio C# .NET, ASP, ASP .NET, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, ColdFusion and more

MMS features:

Support for many multimedia formats incl.: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WBMP, TIF, WAV, MP3, MIDI, AC3, GP3, AVI, MPG, MP4, VCARD, VCALENDAR, JAR and more
Support for MM1 (MMS over WAP), MM4 (MMS over SMTP) and MM7 (MMS over HTML/SOAP)

Pager features:

Send alpha-numeric Pager messages through SNPP

This document describes how the SMS and MMS Toolkit can be integrated into ASP.NET projects.

Prerequisites

You must install and configre Internet Information Services (IIS) before using the SMS and MMS Toolkit with ASP .NET
If you don't have IIS installed, use the following steps:

From the Control Panel, click 'Add/Remove Programs'. Select the 'Add/Remove Windows Components' icon from the left pane, then select 'Application Server' and click on 'Details'. You can now select both 'ASP .NET' and 'Internet Information Services (IIS)'. Click 'OK' to continue installation;
Make sure that ASP .NET is allowed on the web server:

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Step 1: Download and install the SMS and MMS Toolkit

Download the the SMS and MMS Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.

Step 2: Create a new ASP .NET VB Project

Launch Microsoft Visual Studio (for instance 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2005') from the Start menu. Choose 'New' from the 'File' menu and click on 'Web Site'. In the 'Web Site' dialog, select ASP .NET Web Site. Select a name for the application (for instance: 'DemoApp') and a name for the solution (for instance: 'DemoSolution'). Also, select the directory where you want to store the project (for instance: 'C:\MyProjects):

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Step 3: Refer to the SMS and MMS Toolkit Library

Now that a new project has been created, you must add a reference to the SMS and MMS Toolkit in the project to be able to use the SMS and MMS Toolkit objects. To do so, choose 'Add Reference...' from the 'Project' menu. In the 'Add Reference' dialog that pops up, select the 'COM' tab and select the 'ActiveXperts SMS and MMS Toolkit Type Library' as shown in the following picture:

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Click 'OK' to close the 'Add Reference' dialog.
On top of your code, type the following line to use the SMS and MMS Toolkit namespace:

   Imports AXmsCtrl

Step 4: Declare and create the MMS objects

In your Main function, declare and create the following objects:

   Dim objMmsProtocolMm4 As MmsProtocolMm4
   Dim objMmsMessage     As MmsMessage
   Dim objMmsSlide       As MmsSlide
   Dim objMmsConstants   As MmsConstants
      
   objMmsProtocolMm4   = New MmsProtocolMm4 ()
   objMmsMessage       = new MmsMessage ()
   objMmsSlide         = new MmsSlide ()
   objMmsConstants     = new MmsConstants ()

Step 5: Send MMS messages

You can now send MMS messages.

The following code shows how to send a MMS message:

Imports AXmsCtrl
Public Class MmsMm4Form
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "

    'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
     Private Sub InitializeComponent()

    End Sub
    Protected WithEvents Label4 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents Label5 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlResult As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label7 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlSendMessage As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button
    Protected WithEvents ctlAttachment As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label14 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlMSG As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label6 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlSubject As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label13 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlSender As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label12 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlRecipient As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label9 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents Label3 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents Label1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlAccount As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents ctlPort As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents ctlDomain As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents ctlPassword As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
    Protected WithEvents Label2 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected WithEvents ctlHost As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox

    Private objMm4Protocol As MmsProtocolMm4
    Private objMmsMessage  As MmsMessage
    Private objConstants   As MmsConstants

    'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
    'Do not delete or move it.
    Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object

    Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
        'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
        'Do not modify it using the code editor.
        InitializeComponent()
    End Sub

#End Region

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        objMm4Protocol = New MmsProtocolMm4
        objMmsMessage  = New MmsMessage
        objConstants   = New MmsConstants

        If (Not IsPostBack) Then

            ctlPort.Text = "25"
            ctlAttachment.Text = "C:\Windows\system32\clock.avi"
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub UpdateResult(ByVal numResult As System.Int32)
        ctlResult.Text = numResult.ToString() & ": " & objMm4Protocol.GetErrorDescription(numResult)
    End Sub

    Private Sub ctlSendMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ctlSendMessage.Click
        Dim objSlide As MmsSlide = New MmsSlide
        Dim objMessage As MmsMessage = New MmsMessage

        objSlide.Clear()
        objSlide.AddText(ctlMSG.Text)
        objSlide.AddAttachment(ctlAttachment.Text, 0)

        ' Create MMS Message and add slide including text and image
        objMessage.Clear()
        objMessage.AddRecipient(ctlRecipient.Text, objConstants.asMMS_RECIPIENT_TO)
        objMessage.From = ctlSender.Text
        objMessage.Subject = ctlSubject.Text
        objMessage.AddSlide(objSlide)

        objMm4Protocol.Clear()
        objMm4Protocol.ProviderHost = ctlHost.Text
        objMm4Protocol.ProviderDomain = ctlDomain.Text
        objMm4Protocol.ProviderAccount = ctlAccount.Text
        objMm4Protocol.ProviderPassword = ctlPassword.Text
        objMm4Protocol.ProviderPort = System.Int32.Parse(ctlPort.Text)
        ' objMm4Protocol.LogFile = "c:\mmsmm4.log"

        ' Send
        objMm4Protocol.Send(objMessage)
        UpdateResult(objMm4Protocol.LastError)
    End Sub
End Class

There are many working samples included with the product. You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/ammstool.

NOTE: Demo Projects are created with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003

The MMS Toolkit project ships with a set of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET samples, including samples for ASP.NET. The projects are created with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003.
Users with a later version of Microsoft Visual Studio can open such a project. The Visual Studio Conversion Wizard will guide you through the process of converting the project to the version used.

The ActiveXperts SMS and MMS Toolkit is a SMS development component (SDK). This control can be used by any Windows development platform, including Visual Basic .NET, Visual CSharp .NET, ASP .NET (VB,CS), ASP, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Visual Studio/Visual C++, Borland Delphi and C++ Builder, PHP, ColdFusion, HTML, VBScript and any other ActiveX/COM compliant platform. The SMS and MMS Toolkit is an ActiveXperts Software B.V. Product.