How to send a text message...

[fxRichard]

...anyone know if we can send a text message to a phone when certain conditions are met through NT. This may be more of a C# question however I used to be a Java guy so I am not familiar with the nuances of C# and if there is a class available to do something like this. Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I am unaware of any .NET class specific to sending text messages.

[fxRichard]

I am unaware of any .NET class specific to sending text messages.

Actually I think I found my solution, I am still reading through the info and setting it up but it's as simple as emailing your cell. For instance if you have verizon you send an email to ##########@vtext.com and that's it!

[fxRichard]

It's as simple as the following however for some reason System.Web.Mail is not available....hmmmmm....more research as I know very little about C# (is pretty similar to Java though).

using System.Web.Mail;

...

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To = "[email protected]";
mail.From = "Your Automated Trader";
mail.Subject = "";
mail.Body = "Some message!";
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost";
SmtpMail.Send(mail);


----EDIT--- The above works for .NET framework 1.1 the following works for 2.0 and up... (notice the change in the using statement too)

using System.Net.Mail;

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To.Add("[email protected]");
mail.From = new MailAddress("Your Automated Trader");
mail.Subject = "";
mail.Body = "blah!";
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);

[fxRichard]

Ok this works...

Okay this is what ended up working for me using GMail...

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To.Add("[email protected]");
mail.From = new MailAddress("your return mail address");
mail.Subject = "";
mail.Body = "some message here";
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com",587);
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username","password");
smtp.Send(mail);