>I added "debugout" statments in the method of a form and it works when executing form with VFP 7 (i.e. in development mode) but not when when I run the compiled project.
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>Is this a feature (if so I do not see in the help file)?
>Is there a way to get it to work?
>If not what are my alterternatives. I need to save values of variables for debugging purposes when the user is executing the application.

The DEBOUGOT is ignored at runtime. It's documented in help under Distributable and Restricted Visual FoxPro Features and Files. You can use STRTOFILE() and TRANSFORM() functions to write info into log during runtime.