Outlook.MobileItem in MS Outlook 2010 to Create SMS and MMS Messages in VB.NET

Posted in VB.NET | VBA on November 09, 2019

Tags: Create SMS and MMS Messages, MS Outlook, outlook tutorial, Outlook.MobileItem

In this article I am going to explain about how to create Short Message Service (SMS) text messages or multimedia message (MMS) messages from within Microsoft Outlook 2010.

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Introduction

In this article I am going to explain about how to create Short Message Service (SMS) text messages or multimedia message (MMS) messages from within Microsoft Outlook 2010. For this we use Outlook.MobileItem in Microsoft Outlook 2010.

Microsoft Office 2010 offer some powerful tools, using this tools you can create application. Using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) you can create your own application according to your need. These application can performer some specific task.

For creating application we can use

VBA host of Excel 2010
VBA host of PowerPoint 2010
VBA host of Word 2010

NOTE : OneNote 2010 is not a VBA host.

Code that we use in this application are given below

Sub DemoMobileItem()
Dim a As Outlook.Application
a = ThisOutlookSession

' Here we set the path for image.

Const pp As String = _
"D:\vipendra\dog.jpg"

' Here we are creating a SMS massage and provide text in body and in subject.

    Dim b As Outlook.MobileItem
    b = a.CreateItem(olMobileItemSMS)
    b.Subject = "Test SMS"
    b.Body = "Hello, This is vipendra. This is test SMS."
    b.Display(False)

' Here we are creating a MMS

    Dim m As Outlook.MobileItem
    m = a.CreateItem(olMobileItemMMS)
    m.Subject = "Hello, This is vipendra. This is test MMS."

' Here we attach the picture to the MMS.

m.Attachments.Add(pp)
m.Display(False)
End Sub

Step for creating Application

Step 1 : Start MS Outlook 2010 :

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Step 2 : Using Alt + F11 Key Start Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Window :

Step 3 : Select on Project 1 :

Step 4 : Double Click on project 1 ==> Select Microsoft Outlook objects ==> Double click on Microsoft Outlook objects ==> Select on ThisOutlookSession==> Right Click on ThisOutlookSession and select View Code :