>I want to have a combobox that is bound to a date field and be able to select dates from a view. The VFP Help indicates that date is not a valid type for a combobox. Is there a way to do this?

Date is a valid value for the recordsource, but not the control source. Instead of using the controlsource property, you could blank it and do the replace with code in interactive change:

replace mytable.date with this.value

As far as updating it, just issue:
mycombo1.value = mytable.date
whenever the record pointer moves.