>If the user types a partial date and clicks somewhere else I get the old "Invalid Date" wait window and it jumps to the code in whatever control they clicked without firing the valid and lost focus.
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>In this case the error that was occuring was because the user was pressing an add button.
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>I've found the StrictDateEntry property but the problem is that now the user would be forced to put in delimiters.
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>Is there a better solution to this problem?

I used the InputMask.
That seems to do the trick.