Teststand api to read sequences in a subsequence

I would like to read the subsequence names in a subsequence file using the API from C# 2008.
My top level sequence looks like this:
MainSequence
GroupSequence1
GroupSequence2
GroupSequence3
In the subsequence GroupSequence(n) I have the following sequences:
MainSequence
TestSequence1
TestSequence2
TestSequence3
I am able to get the top-level sequence's subsequence names by:
public void ReadSequenceNames(SequenceContext seqContext){
for (int i = 0; i < seqContext.SequenceFile.NumSequences; i++) {
string subSequenceName = thisSeqContext.SequenceFile.GetSequence(i).Name; }
This code returns "MainSequence", "GroupSequence1", "GroupSequence2", "GroupSequence3".
Now I want to find the names of the subsequences in "GroupSequence1", "GroupSequence2", "GroupSequence3", etc.
I would expect to find "MainSequence", "TestSequence1", "TestSequence2", "TestSequence3", etc. but my attempts to move down in the sequence hierarchy haven't worked.

Hi,
These sub-sequence dont reside in the Top level sequence file, therefore, you will have to work your way through the sequences and at every SequenceCall get the path to the sequence file so that you can then load the sequence file to obtain the sequences.
There are a number of API calls you could use but it will depends on how this rountine is run.
Regards
Ray Farmer
Regards
Ray Farmer

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