Look into static variables.

>As an example, one of the cursors tracks content balancing for the test. We need X number of this type, Y number of that type, etc, up to a max number. After each question is 'used', the counter for that questions type gets updated by 1, and the property value for that type gets recalculated. That property value then gets used to other calculations to select the next question
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>>Not sure about E/F and I think it's part of .net, so I'm not sure you need approval.
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>>That being said, the closest to updatable cursors in VB.net are datatables. In fact it it's the closest I can think of to recordsets in ado. Not sure (again!) what you mean by "cursors that need to be updated between each questions displayed". As far as I know you cannot use dt in sql's like you could cursors; but you can Linq (good luck with that :) ). And you can (I think) bind datatables to datagridviews.
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>>Hope (doubt :)) this helps.
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>>>With an up to 2 years approval process for new software, bringing in any kind of Framework is kinda out.
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>>>>Use Entity Framework and create an instance of the entity.
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>>>>>Hey All
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>>>>>I'm in the process of translating/converting a VFP application to VB.Net and while I find a lot of my VB coming back to me, I've also found that how I used to do thing have changed, which is ok.
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>>>>>However, I'm finding so many ways of handling cursors that's it's a little confusion-making.
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>>>>>What I need to be able to do is create 2 update-able cursors that need to be updated between each question displayed. What's the best way to do this now?
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>>>>>Dorris