>I'd like to bypass code while in development mode only.
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>I'm fairly certain there's a way VFP knows it's running under development mode as opposed to running the EXE.

Your 2 lines are not asking the same question, as Christian is correct to point out. I am guessing that both Tore and Koen are answering your really intended question, that being Is Runtime from vfp IDE or the vfp runtime (missing debugger for instance), which gets loaded if you call the vfp generated exe.

If you need to check if the code actually running comes from latest dev effort or from the exe perhaps compiled last quarter, walk the program stack with program() and check lowest or each level if necessary...