To add to Walters point, if running from IDE, vfp will check compilation date vs. source and recompile on the fly if not set to recompile on save.

>>>I don't think that is true. An VFP EXE is not a real regular exe and won't be loaded into memory by default. When a class(lib) is not used or referenced in the app before a certain point, it won't be resident in memory.
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>Perhaps this is the case for a plain unprotected VFP exe... in which case a hacker can just use Refox to access encryption keys/database connection strings etc.
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