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Sending SMS Thru VB using MsComm

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  6 years ago

  by sachinmundra

  Sachin

  Bahrain, United States

  Joined 6 years ago

  I want to write an application that sends sms thru VB. I have gone thru the code samples posted here and other sites. But i am not able to set it up to work. If you can tell me how it is to be done right from the scratch it would be a gr8 help. Please excuse, since i do not not have any experience using the MsComm control.
  

  
  Thanks in advance and really appreciate the effort.
  

  
  Sachin

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  6 years ago

  by amoibade

  amoibade

  Thessaloniki, Greece

  Joined 8 years ago

  Well... i do not know how to do thiw either, but i once had found some components for using mobile phone connect to pc via cable. I guess you have to use one in order to make this work. You can try searching for "mobile components" in yahoo for example, you can get plenty of them. Then download the one that suits to you and your phone. I hope this will help you. But certainly you have to use a different component to control the mobile, because this sends the message and not he pc itself. Some cables (for mobiles) provides you with a component in their cd, you can try there too, but it is not sure...
  

  
  I hope this was helpful enought, even if i have a little doudt on it ...
  

  
  

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  5 years ago

  by kwessy

  Antonio Di Berto

  Genova,Italy, Italy

  Joined 5 years ago

  From kwessy to Sachinmundra
  

  
  

  
  Problems with VB and SMS?
  I found on the web "Mobile FBUS 1.5"
  It work very well!
  The OCX is free for personal use.
  Tested on VB6 connected to Nokia 6110, via serial and FBUS cable, but is able to recognize many
  different cellular phones.
  Enjoy
  ADB
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  Mobile FBUS ActiveX Control Readme

  
  

  
  

  
  Chapter overview:
  

  
  1. Introduction
  2. Installation
  3. Usage
  4. Copyright notice
  5. Version history
  6. Links
  

  
  

  
  1. Introduction
  

  
  The Mobile FBUS ActiveX Control is a Visual Basic ActiveX control for use in
  Visual Basic 5.0 and above projects. It started as an experiment with mobile
  phones linked through a cable, and has now become a well-formed project in the
  form of an ActiveX control. Because of its experimental nature, this control
  is a freeware control.
  

  
  

  
  2. Installation
  

  
  After download, unzip the mfbus15.zip and copy the following files to
  <windir>\SYSTEM (NT users to <windir>\SYSTEM32):
   gjfbus15.dll
   MFBUS15.ocx
   MFBUS15.oca
   REGSVR32.EXE
  

  
  Then go to the command prompt and type:
   regsvr32 MFBUS15.ocx
  

  
  The installation is now complete, and you can include the OCX in your Visual
  Basic project. The control is shown as "Mobile FBUS control v1.5" in the
  Visual Basic components list.
  

  
  

  
  3. Usage
  

  
  The usage of this control is completely described on   http://www.softwarecave.com
  

  
  4. Copyright notice
  

  
  Copyright (c) 2000 by Gert-Jaap Glasbergen. All rights reserved.
  

  
  The Mobile FBUS ActiveX control is freeware. You may freely copy and distribute
  it as long as you distribute the complete package. You are specifically
  prohibited from charging, or requesting donations, for any such copies, however
  made; and from distributing the software and/or documentation with commercial
  products, with one exception: Disk Vendors approved by the Association of
  Shareware Professionals are permitted to redistribute it without specific
  written permission.
  

  
  Mobile FBUS comes without a warranty of any kind. We accept no responsibility
  for the use of this control.
  

  
  

  
  5. Version history
  

  
    1.5.0 (06/04/00):
    =================
    - Logo manipulation
    - Improved SMS handling
    - Date/time and alarm management
    - DTMF support
    - Extended status properties
  

  
    Revisions:
      1.5.0.1 - Fixed slow SMS sending (06/08/2000)
      1.5.0.2 - More performance tuning (06/10/2000)
      1.5.0.3 - Fixed 'Accessory not supported' problem (06/11/2000)
      1.5.0.4 - Fixed COM2 connection problem (06/24/2000)
  

  
    1.2.0 (03/07/00):
    =================
    - Phonebook and Speed Dial management
    - Set startup text
  

  
    1.0.0 (02/17/00):
    =================
    - Send SMS
    - Read SMSs from SIM
    - Dial voice calls
    - Enable/disable monitoring
    - Get current provider name, country and SMS centre
  

  
  

  
  6. Links
  

  
  Mobile FBUS home page: http://www.softwarecave.com/
  

  
  The Visual Basic 6.0 SP4 Runtime is required to use this ActiveX control.
  You can download it from:
  

  
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/Redist/sp4/win98/EN-US/VBRun60sp4.exe

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  5 years ago

  by amoibade

  amoibade

  Thessaloniki, Greece

  Joined 8 years ago

  This seems to be very intresting.
  

  
  I really appreciate your help, i will look it as soon as possible. Thank you a lot!!!
  

  
  

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  5 years ago

  by -=D=-

  Yew Chin Sing

  Kedah, Malaysia, Malaysia

  Joined 8 years ago

  any know how to setup a sms server?

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  5 years ago

  by touchring

  Joshua Lim

  , Singapore

  Joined 5 years ago

  You can try this easy to use SMS Gateway  sender freeware, VisualGSM Lite, that provides HTTP and Commandline interface:
  

  
  http://www.sms-gateway-software.com
  

  
  Rgds,
  Joshua

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