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I am having a problem with my comboboxes and performance so I searched and found this thread which was pretty much exactly my problem. Okay, so comboboxes aren't meant for long lists. My user has this dialog called QuickSearch which she wants to display every record that's in her database...

I'm teaching myself vb.net (in the hopes of landing a job after staying home for the past 6 1/2 years to raise my children :) !). I am following a tutorial online from Programmer's Heaven, and I believe I typed in the code (using Visual Studio) exactly as it's presented, but I get a blank...