Equivalent of strictly typed clusters in vb .net

[Rashid-Malik]

A colleague of mine is now working on porting a LabVIEW based project into VB .NET (has to replicate same functionality as that of LabVIEW based project into VB .NET and then proceed from there). He and I are LabVIEW programmers. He is currently designing the Forms (FPs) and want to duplicate the behaviour of strictly typed cluster controls in VB .NET (that is a change contents/types of cluster in one location and use it in many and changes reflecting in all location). Is that possible in VB .NET? What is the terminology they use in VB for strictly typed controls? Kindly point out some links to the relevant pages.

Thanks a lot!

A very pleasant day to you!

[[dk]]

"A cluster is similar to a record or a struct in text-based programming languages." This from clusters section of  the Data Structures in NI LabVIEW article:

http://www.ni.com/gettingstarted/labviewbasics/datastructures.htm#Clusters

This link discusses using structures in VB .NET:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8607/Using-Structures-in-VB-NET

I would also recommend posting this same question in the Measurement Studio forum threads:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Measurement-Studio-for-VB6/bd-p/230

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Measurement-Studio-for-NET/bd-p/232