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Ok, I hope I can explain this:
I am trying to create a function that will allow me to take any instanced object and return a key value pair of all of the data members inside of it. For example:

Public Structure myStruct
Dim str1 as String
Dim str2 as String
End Structure

Public Function myFunction()
Dim myStr as myStruct
myStr.str1 = "Val1"
myStr.str2 = "Val2"
Dim results()() = FancyFunction(myStruct)
End Function

Results should contain:
str1 val1
str2 val2

The example is trivial and if I knew what myStruct looked like at design time I could just hardcode the two properties. The problem is I will not know (i.e. FancyFunction will be given an arbitrary user defined structure).
Using the System.Reflection I can retrieve a list of all of the names of the members, but in String form I cannot retieve the property. Below is as far as I have gotten

Dim structStuff = myStruct.GetType.GetMembers()
Dim prop As System.Reflection.MemberInfo
For Each prop In structStuff
Dim field As String = prop.Name.ToString
Next
At this point, field contains a single member of the structure ("str1" in the above example) Since field is just a string variable I cannot very well call myStruct.field but essentially this is what I want to do!

If anyone has an idea on this please let me know!