>In VFP6: The bad date is written to the table, but does not display in the
>text box once the text box loses focus.
>In VFP8: VFP immediately throws a "Date/datetime evaluated to an invalid value"
>Note that this error does not occur if the text box is unbound.
>
>Has anyone else seen this? Any setting to make VFP 8 behave like 6, short of
>an on error routine to trap the bad date and display a message?

Do I understand correctly that you want invalid data written to your table? If so, may I ask why?