>>>>Hi Paul,
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>>>>Yes that is correct. Why do you have to check out every file before building your EXE? I've never had to do that.
>>>>
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>>>If you choose to "Rebuild All", you'll need to check them out.
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>>That's "Recompile All Files" and I don't normally have that checked.
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>I normally do, and recompile all the time without checking everything out. Maybe I'm just lucky?

I'd be careful and not just assume everythings fine. If your forms, class libraries, etc are NOT checked out then they should be read-only and you should get a 'Cannot update cursor' error when you try to compile because the compiled source can't be written into the table.