sms short code and c#

Question

hi every1 I have developed a micro finance application and am now trying to get my account holders to access their account balances by sending a short code sms for example bal ac 0001. I therefore need some good understanding of how the sms gets to my application and how i reply the sms. getting the sms to query my application is my biggest challenge because once it queries my app i can then easily trigger a reply. any help will be greatly appreciated.

Vishal Jadav · Answer

Hi Marvin For getting SMS requests from your clients you may need to consider following things. 1. GSM Modem. 2. A Sim. 3. Read SMS from modem. 4. Validate senders 5. If validate put SMS in a table followed by a trigger which then checks further logic from DB. 6. Proccess logic. 7. You can reply back using SMS or any sms gateway available out there. If you need any help please let me know. Below is my article on C# corner from where you can get the idea of read data from GSM modem and write to it. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/code/2880/serial-port-with-efficient-data-reading-in-c-sharp.aspx Hope it helps. Thank you.