>>>I remember when VFP came out that it would post a dialog (with a Visual FoxPro titlebar) asking whether XYZ was the new home directory of the database when it was relocated - this happened even during runtime in an EXE.
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>>>I haven't noticed this in VFP6.
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>>>Does this mean that VFP no longer asks this question, thus making it simplier to hide the fact that an application was developed with VFP?
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>>The project manager does this. I never used VFP 3, but I have never seen this asked at runtime, only in VFP design time, when opening a project.
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>>If you know how to suppress them (some are tricky, like the application name in the print queue), there are very few things anymore that can reveal that your project is a VFP app.
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>I don't think that it's either necessary or desirable - I've never run into a situation where I bought a product based on what it was written in, and there are a bunch of apps that use non-descript file extensions (like .DAT) where being able to cruise through the app with a hex editor to find out what language was used to develop things after the fact is the only thing that let me figure out what to do with the old apps data files...

I don't think its necessary either. But I can see for a shrinkwrapped application where the authors might not want to reveal any of these details.