Make sure your regional setting on your PPC or Emulator is set to English(UK). That would fix the display. I'm in Australia and we did the same thing.
the other thinng you could concatenate your query string - SQL - using day(date)+'/'+month(date)+'/'+year(date) as Mydate

>I am saving data to an xml file using CURSORTOXML() in VFP8. The date columns are formatted yyyy-mm-dd. When I read them into a dataset and display them in a data grid how do I format the column to display them as dd-mm-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy?
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>I am using the compact framework and C#.
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>Thanks for any help
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>John.