Object to array

I have a object from outlook which is a mailitem, and I want to turn all the variables into an array to store in a file.

yes, that's possible. you may want to consider to store it in a List(Of T) or look into the ToArray() method

List(Of T) Class
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6sh2ey19(v=vs.110).aspx
(look for the possible constructors and click on it to see the examples)

List<T>.ToArray Method ()
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x303t819(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-1

Couldnt get these to work :-(

So my code at the moment is:-

            Dim mail As Outlook.MailItem = item
            Dim output() As String = mail.toarray()

            Dim serializer As New JavaScriptSerializer()
            Dim arrayJson As String = serializer.Serialize(output)

            MsgBox(arrayJson)

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Any ideas what Im doing wrong?

what info you wish to read from MailItem and put into JSON array ?

Problem is, I dont know yet :-S

The data to store in the database (to search) keeps changing, so my plan was to store all the information in a JSON text file, then when a request comes along to add xxx to the search I can simply write some code to look at the JSON file and pull the requested field into the database and build the indexes for searching.

Initially they only wanted the `Date Received` and the `Subject`. Now its the `recipient` and `sender`, and already I've heard rumours they want the `conversationID` and Ive had requests to add `attachments` into the search. Hence store everything in a JSON text file and pull as needed, instead of trying to upload from the PST files again (which takes ages).

So looking at the element for mail (which is a mailtem from outlook) I get the following elements:-

I did think I could loop through each element and store in an array via:-

Dim objElement As Object
For Each objElement in mail

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But I cant figure a way of reading all the elements inside mail.

perhaps it doesn't make sense if we are looping through all the elements in mailtem since it's quite complex to read through all its content, as back to the basic, we only store useful info into database, and hence we only extract useful info from the source.