combobox items collection display snafu

[Dan]

OK - I may be going crazy but I'm having one of those "I can't believe
something that ought to be so simple is consuming so much of my day"
moments. I thank you all in advance for any and all assistance.

I have a winforms combobox that I have assigned the Items Collection to
at design time. At runtime the list is seemingly empty, but if I
select an item (or what should be an item because the list seems empty)
it displays in the combobox. In other words, it's as if the ForeColor
== BackColor. Any thoughts? Is this just remarkably simple and I've
overlooked the patently obvious? I tried compiling in release mode as
well to no avail, still get the same odd behavior.

I don't need to, nor do I want to bind the control to a
dataset/datatable. I just want a simple dropdown with 20 pre-defined
items.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Bruce Wood]

Do you have McAfee Version 8 VirusScan installed?

You may be dealing with this problem:

http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=32979

It has symptoms all the way from crashes down to things not appearing
in message boxes and combo boxes.

 

[Dan]

Wow - thanks for the quick response Bruce. I don't know if that is
exactly what is hampering me, but I certainly do have all the right
ingredients. Unfortunately I can't shut off the overflow buffer
proction to test (guess it's off to sys admin land).

Thanks again,
Dan