>Should I be able to use he Project Wizard to build an empty project called Test and then run the test_app.prg? Obviously the program will not do anything, but it should be a base foundation program.
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>Am I barking up the wrong tree?

Hi Joel,

There's no Project Wizard in VFP. I also not sure what is your definition of empty procect is because you can create an empty project by issuing

MODIFY PROJECT myproject