I imagine the reason you would do this would be to run in the same process, so you can use the debugger with the program,

To do that, start VFP, CD to the EXE directory, making sure all the prg files are available in the directory, and then set your breakpoint. At that point, from the command window, issue: DO yourexename

And away you go.

Hank

PS: if you need to do this on a customer site, you do not need to install VFP development in order to debug. Take the vfp.exe file from your dev machine, drop in the VFP directory (under program files (x86)\common files\microsoft shared) and start vfp from there, then follow the directions above. You won't have some features, but those aren't needed for this kind of debugging. You will need to zip up any prgs needed for debugging. For SCX's and VCX's, it depends on whether you cleared out the source from the vcx, etc. of course.

>I want to be able to run vfp from explorer and my program within it to try to resolve a problem I have
>
>if my program is colin.exe how do I do this