Sending the unique phone id as an email - windows-phone-7

Question

I try to create an app that allows the user to register himself for my service.
The problem is that it is very important that i can limit each user to a very single account
i figured out I could probably do this with the Phone unique id and the windows live id
i also figured out how to get These within the app , but now my problem is how to get them to me!
Can anyone help me on how to send the phone id with the desired username to my email address ?
Thank you
EDIT
I use this code to get the needed values
public static class ExtendedPropertyHelper
{
private static readonly int ANIDLength = 32;
private static readonly int ANIDOffset = 2;
public static string GetManufacturer()
{
string result = string.Empty;
object manufacturer;
if (DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("DeviceManufacturer", out manufacturer))
result = manufacturer.ToString();
return result;
}
//Note: to get a result requires ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE
// to be added to the capabilities of the WMAppManifest
// this will then warn users in marketplace
public static byte[] GetDeviceUniqueID()
{
byte[] result = null;
object uniqueId;
if (DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("DeviceUniqueId", out uniqueId))
result = (byte[])uniqueId;
return result;
}
// NOTE: to get a result requires ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER
// to be added to the capabilities of the WMAppManifest
// this will then warn users in marketplace
public static string GetWindowsLiveAnonymousID()
{
string result = string.Empty;
object anid;
if (UserExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("ANID", out anid))
{
if (anid != null && anid.ToString().Length >= (ANIDLength + ANIDOffset))
{
result = anid.ToString().Substring(ANIDOffset, ANIDLength);
}
}
return result;
}
}
Now i need to store thes in variables ( what i cant really get to work ) and then send them to my php script which extracts them
in addition to this i need to ask the user to enter his email address and include this in the POST too ,
can you help?

Answer 1

You can get DeviceExtendedProperties.DeviceUniqueId from Microsoft.Phone.Info namespace.
Don't forget to declare in WMAppManifest.xml
like this:
<Capabilities>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER"/>
</Capabilities>
Link to msdn here
Then, you can send this id to your e-mail:
var emailComposeTask = new EmailComposeTask
{
To = "your-email#domiain.com",
Subject = "Test Message using EmailComposeTask",
Body = deviceId
};
emailComposeTask.Show();
But this will open an-email client, and I don't thik that user will be so kind to send you an email. So, you'd better send a POST request to your server
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
//collect all data you need:
var deviceId = Convert.ToBase64String(ExtendedPropertyHelper.GetDeviceUniqueID());
var userName = ExtendedPropertyHelper.GetWindowsLiveAnonymousID();
var manufatcurer = ExtendedPropertyHelper.GetManufacturer();
//create request string
//[see the explanation on MSDN][2]
var requestUrl = string
.Format("http://myPageUrlAddress.com/script.aspx?deviceid={0}&user={1}&manufacturer={2}",
deviceId, userName, manufatcurer);
System.Uri myUri = new System.Uri(requestUrl);
//create a request instance
HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(myUri);
myRequest.Method = "POST";
myRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
//and it will be sent.
//Also you need to create GetRequestStreamCallback method to
//handle server responce.
myRequest.BeginGetRequestStream(new
AsyncCallback(GetRequestStreamCallback), myRequest);
}
//this method is empty. You can show tha dialog box about successful sending.
public void GetRequestStreamCallback(IAsyncResult result) { ; }
What about e-mail - just create a TextBox on the same Page, and save user input to a variable.

Answer 2

If "my service" is a web service, then you could use the web service instead of the mail system.
In either case you can use Convert.ToBase64String(phoneId) to convert the phone id to a string.
To send strings via mail from WP7 you need to use EmailComposeTask.