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Sending SMS messages from VB 6.0 2
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HarleyQuinn
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How do you want to send it?
From an SMS web service (not the most reliable as sites can change, disappear etc.) or from a SMS modem you have?
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From an SMS web service (not the most reliable as sites can change, disappear etc.) or from a SMS modem you have?
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Then you can use your COM ports and the AT command, a tutorial can be found here (or at least there used to be one there, I can't check now as for some reason my work filter is blocking the site ![[ponder]](/data/assets/smilies/ponder.gif "[ponder] [ponder]")
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Hope this helps
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).Hope this helps
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I've written an application that includes sending automated SMSs and the easiest solution is to find a third party SMS agency where you can buy credits and then send SMSs by either sending an e-mail to the agency where the Subject is the mobile number and the body is the SMS, or by creating a URL and navigating to it using the WebBrowser control.
The agency we used (in the UK) is
You can then send an SMS in VB using a couple of lines of code:
As Strongm said you can/could also buy modems into which you can stick your SIMM card and send SMSs from your PC as though they originated from your mobile but I'm not sure how easy it is to do that. I'd try the idea above first, it's very straightforward and if you speak to them nicely they usually give you 20 free credits for testing purposes.
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The agency we used (in the UK) is
You can then send an SMS in VB using a couple of lines of code:
Code:
SendSMS$ = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.txtlocal.co.uk/send.php?iuname=YourUserName&ipword=YourPassword&recipient=00447736123456&message=This%20is%20a%20test"[/URL]
WebBrowser1.Navigate2 SendSMS$As Strongm said you can/could also buy modems into which you can stick your SIMM card and send SMSs from your PC as though they originated from your mobile but I'm not sure how easy it is to do that. I'd try the idea above first, it's very straightforward and if you speak to them nicely they usually give you 20 free credits for testing purposes.
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>As Strongm said
No, I was talking about the fact the mobile operators used to offer free dialup gateways to their SMS service. But that was about 15 years ago. It's been a while since I dabbled in this area, but I believe that many of themn now offer email to SMS gateways
No, I was talking about the fact the mobile operators used to offer free dialup gateways to their SMS service. But that was about 15 years ago. It's been a while since I dabbled in this area, but I believe that many of themn now offer email to SMS gateways
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