What you did has been very common. It is confusing how the name is similar to the command window inside of VS .NET. Also, for many of us VFP developers, we instantly think of the Command Window as being inside the developer tool.

>i just figured out i was in the wrong place. i was in the .NET framework command window instead of the shell window. I should be good to go. Thanks for all your help Cathi. I appreciate it.