>>Please see thread #775160. "When I build my app in VFP8 the icon is missing. It shows the windows icon instead of my custom icon."
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>>I'm having the same problem. Things definitely worked fine with VFP7. What's the suggested workaround? Thanks.
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>One workaround I've found is to put the ico file in the project and at startup of the exe, set _screen.icon to that file.

Any graphics you use must be included in the project at build. Then they will be compiled into the exe, otherwise if you distribute the app without the graphics files it won't be able to find them. It isn't really a work around, if the icon is included in the project at build, you don't need to put it in the app directory at runtime.