I was working on a project the other day in MFC/C++ 6 and had to put 180,000 items into a ComboBox. Every Windows programmer that reads this Blog just collectively groaned, but there was a reason for it – honest. On a whim I thought I would see what would happen if I did the same test using C#, Windows Forms, and the .NET Framework; the results were surprising, given all of the “Why .NET Framework?” grief I’ve gotten over the couple of years.
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