I need to look at the properties of an object and I cannot instantiate this object in the proper state on my dev machine. I need my client to run some code on her machine, serialize the object in question to disk and then I can analyze the file.

Here is the class I want to serialize.

System.Security.AccessControl.RegistrySecurity

Here is my code:

    Private Sub SerializeRegSecurity(ByVal regKey As RegistryKey)

    Try

        Dim regSecurity As System.Security.AccessControl.RegistrySecurity = regKey.GetAccessControl()

        Dim oXS As XmlSerializer = New XmlSerializer(GetType(System.Security.AccessControl.RegistrySecurity))
        Dim oStmW As StreamWriter

        Dim regDebugFilePath As String = Path.Combine(My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop, "RegDebugFile.xml")
        'Serialize object to XML and write it to XML file
        oStmW = New StreamWriter(regDebugFilePath)
        oXS.Serialize(oStmW, regSecurity)
        oStmW.Close()

    Catch ex As Exception
        Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString)
    End Try

End Sub

And here's what I end up with in my XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Any ideas on how to accomplish what I am trying to do? How can we serialize a class that is not a custom class of our own?

Thanks for ANY help. Even an alternate method.