>How do you tell VFP to NOT scan the project looking for dependencies that it then automatically adds to the project?
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>If you have one class or reference in the wrong place and you try to build a small little project VFP ends up finding that reference and ends up pulling code from other projects into this project. It's very handy behavior most of the time, but sometimes it's a giant PIA.

Have you tried including dummy versions (basically stubs), that you add to project and tag as excluded?