Steve -

It's not shutting down when the forms have a ShowWindow value of 0. It only happens in the .exe when the last open form has been set to 2 - As Top-Level Form.

>You've got something shutting down your app. That is not normal behaviour for codemine. If I create a brand new app, add a form, launch the form, & close the form. My application does not shutdown.
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>Try creating a new from with nothing on it, and see if closing that form causes the app to close.
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>Look at the sample app, compile it and see if it behaves the same way or not.
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>Hope this helps, steve