>Thanks for the User Group invite. I'm getting married soon and I'm swamped right now...but will keep it in mind.
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>I have a little more on my question....if the DBC/DBF's and Forms...have no project for them, can I still just put them all in the same folder and compile? I have never done an EXE from VFP. We use VFP5.0 by the way.
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>Look forward to hearing from you.

You can compile the forms [SCX], classes [VCX], programs [PRGs], etc., but the compiled code is stored in a memo field within the forms and classes files [SCX/SCT, VCX/VCT, etc]. You can run these under the runtime libraries, but you still have to provide the runtime files and register the DLLs on every workstation that needs to run your app. You will have to have a compile startup APP/EXE that the runtime can launch before you can run any form not compiled into either an APP or EXE file. However, my experience has been that when these files are provided separately, performance suffers greatly.

Do not include data files into the compiled APP/EXE unless you intend for them to be read-only.