How to send email from your Windows Phone 8.1 app

As part of the API changes made in the new Windows Phone 8.1 XAML programming model, the EmailComposeTask - and several other tasks - that were available in the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace in Windows Phone 8 are no longer available.

Most of these have been replaced with a new way of performing the same tasks. For sending an email from within your app, the old way in Windows Phone 8 was as follows:

OLD WAY
========

EmailComposeTask emailComposeTask = new EmailComposeTask();
emailComposeTask.Subject = "Subject";
emailComposeTask.To = "support@developer.com";
emailComposeTask.Show();

The new way in Windows Phone 8.1 to send an email from your app is as follows:

NEW WAY
=========

// Define Recipient

EmailRecipient sendTo = new EmailRecipient()

{

    Name = "Name of Recepient",

    Address = "support@developer.com"

};

// Create email object

EmailMessage mail = new EmailMessage();

mail.Subject = "this is the Subject";

mail.Body = "this is the Body";

// Add recipients to the mail object

mail.To.Add(sendTo);

//mail.Bcc.Add(sendTo);

//mail.CC.Add(sendTo);

// Open the share contract with Mail only:

await EmailManager.ShowComposeNewEmailAsync(mail);

 
 
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Comments

• Anonymous
  December 30, 2014
  it gives the following error Error 1 The 'await' operator can only be used within an async method. Consider marking this method with the 'async' modifier and changing its return type to 'Task'. c:usersamoldocumentsvisual studio 2013projectsapp5app5aboutus.xaml.cs 139 1 App5

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2015
  Thankyou. It was very helpful.

• Anonymous
  January 12, 2015
  Amol, that is correct, you simply need to wrap the code provided in a method marked as async.