Please make and sell me this software! :-)

[Guest rasncain]

Could someone please develop software for the WM5 smartphone that will allow me to assign contacts a different email notification tone, of course it should be able to play the notification tone when an email is recieved.

I have seen software to do this for SMS messages, so different contacts can have different tones for SMS messages allowing you to be able to identify your contacts via sound. Same concept for different ring tones for each contact which you are capable of doing by default.

Since smartphones are becoming blackberry replacements, and more and more are using them for sending and recieving emails, it would be nice to identify emails from various contacts with different tones.

If you can't do it on an individual basis maybe a group basis? Work contacts versus personal contacts? The whole point is to not get complacent in checking my phone when I get emails. Which I have become. However if the executive management team or boss contacts sends me an email I want to make sure I read it no matter what time it is.

Just an idea, I can't be the only one who wants this functionality. I have searched and asked but have come up empty handed so far. I only wish I was a programmer, and who knows this might be just the thing to make it start. :-)

[Guest Simon Olesen]

who knows this might be just the thing to make it start. :-)

do you want to learn programming ?

[Guest rasncain]

do you want to learn programming ?

Actually, I think I do. For once I seem to want something that does not appear to exist at the moment. I just don't know where to start to be honest. Heck I wish I could just know that what I want is even doable. Since I would need to build something that would integrate with the contacts of the phone, and with the email application in WM5.

I guess to start I would need the SDK, and I guess I would be developing for/in .NET ?

Any thoughts on pointing me in the right direction would be helpful and greatly appreciated.

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Seems pretty straightforward I think... if I had time to write it, i'd help u out :)

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[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I would implement it by requiring the user disable the regular tone, hooking into the WM5 state notification broker to raise an event when the number of unread messages changes, then when that fires looking at the mailbox, determining what's new, and playing the appropriate tone(s).

Piece of cake!

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[Guest rasncain]

I would implement it by requiring the user disable the regular tone, hooking into the WM5 state notification broker to raise an event when the number of unread messages changes, then when that fires looking at the mailbox, determining what's new, and playing the appropriate tone(s).

Piece of cake!

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Paul,

I appreciate your comments, and I know that this reply you provided will be very useful / helpful to me as I get started. I will be able to look into some of the things you mention to figure out how to do them and what they mean. :-)

Can someone answer me this, I see there is a Windows Mobile 5 developer kit which is a free download from MS. Does this provide the tools to develop? I guess what I am asking is would I need something else, to develop in? A program or something like visual studio? I can get my hands on just about anything, but I only want to if I need to, or if someone of you who are experts think it would be helpful or useful.

I know some could do it all in notepad probably and then compile it or something. :-) So I am sure there is something out there that would provide me a jumpstart in this project.

Again, I just want to extend my appreciate and thanks to all that take the time to help. I am excited about getting started with this, love that I actually have something I want to drive me to do this.

[Guest rasncain]

Does this sound about right for what I need to get started:

1. Visual Studio (Visual C# 2005 Express Edition?)

2. WM5 SDK

From what I am reading it sounds like the best way for some novice like me with no background or experience other then some basic VB and C++ in college "a long time ago" would be to leverage the .NET compact framework for this?

I would want to develop for the WM5 Smartphone. A developer friend (no experience with smartphones) suggested using Visual C# 2005. Any reason to use C++ or C# or VB over the other? Knowing what I am hoping to accomplish can you recommend the best language I should considering doing it in?

Am I on the right track here?

Edited December 10, 2006 by rasncain

[Guest Shuflie]

You could always buy voice command and set it to announce all email as it arrives (by default it only announces messages flagged as high priority). It will read out who the email is from, so you don't even have to set up an individual tone for each contact in your phone book.

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

The Express editions of Visual Studio don't support Mobile Development - you'll need a Standard Edition 180 day trial at least.

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[Guest Simon Olesen]

hi.

i'm trying to learn programming too. i only have experience with prompt based programs from school.

my starting point is:

visual studio 2005 professional edition and wm5 SDK.

i dont think anything else is needed, but a good getting started website.

I havent found one yet :D

i cant decide between useing C++ and C# :)

Edited December 17, 2006 by Simon Olesen