Combo Box Initialization

 One of the more useless features of MFC is the ability to add items to a combo box in the resource editor. You might ask “Why?” Clearly it makes life easy. Well, it doesn’t. In fact, it can make life impossible. For example, the only condition under which this is useful is if the strings are language-independent text and the whole ComboBox is completely insensitive to being sorted or unsorted. I’ve seen things like the resource editor adding items like