listbox and combobox items are invisible

Some recent Windows update caused a change in Visual Basic - Visual Studio
2003 that causes the following aberrant behavior:
Items added to a listbox (or combobox) creates invisible items (that can be
selected).
To reproduce this behavior I can create a new Windows Application and paste
this code in the form.load event:
Dim listBox1 As New ListBox
listBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(200, 100)
listBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(10, 10)
Me.Controls.Add(listBox1)
listBox1.BeginUpdate()
Dim x As Integer
For x = 1 To 50
listBox1.Items.Add("Item " & x.ToString())
Next x
listBox1.EndUpdate()

Try a newsgroup with DotNet in the name as you will probably get an answer
alot quicker.  These newsgroups are really for VB Classic (6 and below)..

Good luck.

--
Chris Hanscom
MVP (Visual Basic)
http://www.veign.com
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"WolfenSteed" <WolfenSteed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Some recent Windows update caused a change in Visual Basic - Visual Studio
> 2003 that causes the following aberrant behavior:
> Items added to a listbox (or combobox) creates invisible items (that can
be
> selected).
> To reproduce this behavior I can create a new Windows Application and
paste
> this code in the form.load event:
>       Dim listBox1 As New ListBox
>       listBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(200, 100)
>       listBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(10, 10)
>       Me.Controls.Add(listBox1)
>       listBox1.BeginUpdate()
>       Dim x As Integer
>       For x = 1 To 50
>          listBox1.Items.Add("Item " & x.ToString())
>       Next x
>       listBox1.EndUpdate()