EMail Chooser in Windows Phone 7

Today, in this article let's dig out one of the useful feature related to windows phone. This concept is useful in choosing the eMails and performing necessary tasks as per the user requirements.

Question Arises: What is an eMail Chooser Task?

This Class allows user to choose eMail from the contact list, where it specifically retrieves only email address with name which is useful to perform further operations by the user.

The Complete Code of MainPage.xaml looks like this:

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
    x:Class="Email_Chooser_Task.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"
    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="Vijay's Email Chooser Task" FontFamily="Verdana" FontSize="22"  Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
            <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="Windows 7 Phone" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
        </StackPanel>

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->
        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
            <Button Content="Choose eMail" FontFamily="Verdana" FontSize="22" Height="72" Margin="127,54,132,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="button1_Click" />
        </Grid>
    </Grid>
    <!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar-->
    <!--<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
        <shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True">
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/>
            </shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
        </shell:ApplicationBar>
    </phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>-->

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

The Complete Code of MainPage.xaml.cs looks like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace Email_Chooser_Task
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        // Constructor
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            EmailAddressChooserTask objEmailChooser = new EmailAddressChooserTask();
            objEmailChooser.Completed += new EventHandler<EmailResult>(EmailCompleted);
            objEmailChooser.Show();
        }
        void EmailCompleted(object sender, EmailResult e)
        {
            switch (e.TaskResult)
            {
                case TaskResult.OK:
                    MessageBox.Show(" The eMail of: " + e.DisplayName + " is " + e.Email);
                    break;

                case TaskResult.Cancel:
                    MessageBox.Show("Operation Cancelled");
                    break;

                case TaskResult.None:
                    MessageBox.Show("Nothing Performed");
                    break;

            }
        }
    }
}

The Output of the Application looks like this:

The Selected eMail Output Application looks like this:

I hope this article is useful for you.