Send Email using Exchange Web Service - EWS in C# from Windows Store Apps - XAML - UWP

In previous section, I introduced how to send email asynchronously. In this section, I will introduce how to send email with Exchange Web Service - EWS.

Introduction

Exchange Web Services (EWS), an alternative to the MAPI protocol, is a documented SOAP based protocol introduced with Exchange Server 2007. We can use HTTP or HTTPS protocol to send email with Exchange Web Services (EWS) instead of SMTP protocol.

  • SMTP protocol

    Standard SMTP protocol based on TCP/IP, all email servers support this protocol, Exchange Server also supports SMTP protocol. Using SMTP protocol is always recommended.

  • Exchange WebDAV

    Exchange WebDAV is a set of methods based on the HTTP protocol to manage users, messages in Microsoft Exchange Server. We can use HTTP or HTTP/HTTPS protocol to send email with Exchange WebDAV instead of SMTP protocol. But since Exchange 2007, WebDAV service is disabled by default, so I only suggest that you use WebDAV protocol in Exchange 2000/2003.

  • Exchange Web Service (EWS)

    Exchange Web Services (EWS), an alternative to the MAPI protocol, is a documented SOAP based protocol introduced with Exchange Server 2007. We can use HTTP or HTTPS protocol to send email with Exchange Web Services (EWS) instead of SMTP protocol. I only suggest that you use EWS protocol in Exchange 2007/2010/2013/2016 or later version. Office365 also supports EWS very well.

With EASendMail SMTP Component, you do not have to build your EWS SOAP XML request and parse the response. It wraps the SOAP XML and HTTP request automatically. You just need to change the SmtpServer.Protocol property, and then EASendMail uses Web Service protocol to send email. Your server SHOULD be Exchange 2007 or later version; otherwise you cannot use Exchange Web Service protocol.

Note

Remarks: All of samples in this section are based on first section: Send email in A simple C# XAML Windows Store App project. To compile and run the following example codes successfully, please click here to learn how to create the test project and add reference of EASendMail to your project.

[C# - Send email with Exchange Web Service - EWS]

The following example codes demonstrate how to use EASendMail SMTP component to send email with Exchange Web Service - EWS.

Note

To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using Windows.Foundation;
using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;

// Add EASendMail and Tasks Namespace
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using EASendMail;

namespace CSharp_Windows_Store_App
{
    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
        {
        }

        private async void btnSend_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            btnSend.IsEnabled = false;
            await Send_Email();
            btnSend.IsEnabled = true;
        }

        private async Task Send_Email()
        {
            String Result = "";
            try
            {
                SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt");
                SmtpClient oSmtp = new SmtpClient();

                // Set sender email address, please change it to yours
                oMail.From = new MailAddress("test@emailarchitect.net");

                // Add recipient email address, please change it to yours
                oMail.To.Add(new MailAddress("support@emailarchitect.net"));

                // Set email subject and email body text
                oMail.Subject = "test email from C# XAML project";
                oMail.TextBody = "this is a test email sent from Windows Store App using EWS";

                // Your Exchange Server address
                SmtpServer oServer = new SmtpServer("exch.emailarchitect.net");

                // Set Exchange Web Service EWS - Exchange 2007/2010/2013/2016
                oServer.Protocol = ServerProtocol.ExchangeEWS;

                // User and password for Exchange user authentication
                oServer.User = "emailarchitect.net\\test";
                oServer.Password = "testpassword";

                // By default, Exchange Web Service requires SSL connection
                oServer.ConnectType = SmtpConnectType.ConnectSSLAuto;

                await oSmtp.SendMailAsync(oServer, oMail);
                Result = "Email was sent successfully!";
            }
            catch (Exception ep)
            {
                Result = String.Format("Failed to send email with the following error: {0}", ep.Message);
            }

            // Display Result by Diaglog box
            Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog dlg = new
                Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog(Result);

            await dlg.ShowAsync();
        }
    }
}

Next Section

At next section I will introduce how to send email with Exchange WebDAV.

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