>That would defeat the purpose. Without it, the grid is not formatted as I need.

Yeah, you're right ... sorry, I don't use the DGV all that much.

But, I looked into it and you're using the wrong property to set the style. Try the DefaultCellStyle.Format instead:

this.dataGridView1.Columns["DOB"].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "MM/dd/yyyy";

~~Bonnie


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>>Have you tried *not* doing the FormatGrid() method after you rebind?
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>>~~Bonnie