You could just set the width of the textbox to something like 75, so the time part is not shown, but that's kind of cheesy, and you probably tried it already.

I'm also using SQL server but through ADO, so I'm not binding directly to a field. I pretty much couldn't get it to work with format or input mask, so I had to create a class for this case, the basic idea is:

In the refresh event/method of the textbox:

this.value = ttod( eval( this.cSource ) )

In the Lostfocus event/method

replace ( this.cSource ) with this.value

cSource is a custom property, which I use to store the name of the field I'm affecting, i.e. Orders.dCreated . You could use two properties, one for the table name and another for the field name so you can do something like:

replace (this.cField) with this.value in (this.ctable)

To keep replace from acting up because of the currently selected table or view.