How do I access the type-specific data in HealthRecordItemCollection?

Question

Hi,

I'm having problems working with the HealthRecordItemCollection class.

I've used a HealthRecordSearcher to find all the Message ItemTypes in an account using an offline Windows Forms Application.

The results are returned in a HealthRecordItemCollection which I gather seems to be the usual way to return search results. As I know that everything in the collection is a Message itemtype (because I specified that in the healthRecordFilter), how do I then access all of the type specific data that is in each message in the collection? For example, I want to read each From, Subject, Summary, Attachment value that is in each item in the collection.

I'm still new to HealthVault so apologies if I'm asking a simple question!

Answer 1

Hi,

Can you try something like this:

HealthRecordFilter filter = new HealthRecordFilter(Message.TypeId);
searcher.Filters.Add(filter);
HealthRecordItemCollection items = searcher.GetMatchingItems()[0];
foreach (Message msg in items)
{
     // retrieve each message here as msg.<whatever you are interested in>
}

Thanks
Santhosh

Answer 2

Thanks for your help - it worked perfectly!