Data Structure: Accessing Members

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VB

First, a simple data access class:

Public Class MyTestClass

    ' the structure of the records in the data file
    Public Structure FileRecordType
        Dim Index As Integer
        Dim RefIndex As Integer
        Dim Type As Short
        <VBFixedString(75)> Public Title As String
    End Structure

    Dim mRecord As FileRecordType


End Class

Obviously, the real implementation will have methods to read & write the data, properties to access the fields, etc...

Now, the questions:

1. Is there a methodology to access the structiure members by name? What I am think of is a simple function like:

Function GetValue(ByVal FieldName as String, ByVal iRecord as FileRecordType) as Object

That will take the name (as a string) of the field and somehow find the associated field in the passed record. I realize this will ahve to occur within the scope of the class taht contains the structure declaration.

2. Similarly, I would like to be able to "scan through" the structure and return a list of the field names.

3. A method to find the string types within the structure and return the length of the field.