>The name is dataenvironment.
>What can I do to open a blank cursoradapter, define a variable and then refresh the cursor?

Have you added a CA to the DE? My suggestion would be to go to http://www.mctweedle.com and click the FoxPro tools link. Then download the 2 CA files there. Unzip them and look at my example code and read the comments at the beginning of the CABuilder.prg file.