Why "not quite"? ...I think you don't want to distribute the parent classes at all, neither in nor outside your APP/EXE... :)

Vlad

>not quite, but the best idea so far. thanks.
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>>Include them into project, go to Project menu and choose Exclude. In this way, the project manager won't complain and the VCXs won't be included in the APP/EXE.
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>>Hope this is what you want. :)
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>>Vlad
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>>>this is just to much for a friday morning. we have subclassed several class libraries and would like to use these in a project. our problem is that we don't want the parent classes included, but the project manager always includes them. how (can) you avoid this?