>>>I can write apps and NOT compile them into EXEs.
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>No. You need to compile them in some sort of EXE - either standalone - or as a COM DLL/EXE.

No you don't, John (VB has eaten away your Fox brain --haha)...you run from the .APP ... assuming that Fox runtime support is available. Or you can run from a collection of .FXP and .SCX, et al....with the same caveat.