You are correct. This is documented in the VFP 6 help. Oh well, this is easy enough to work around. This restriction makes about as much sense to me as the TAG property being restricted to Character only.

>In 5, the valid data types for a CBO are C,I, and N. I suspect that's not different in 6.0.
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>>In VFP 6, how do you get a combobox to have its value be a data type? I have tried Date(), =Date(), {^1999-01-01}, etc. I have tried it programmatically as well. The source is a cursor with one date field. In the debugger, after I have selected a date from the cursor, it shows the date as a character.
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>>TIA