C++ MFC add combo box string item from a widget ID

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Published on 2012-10-11T15:21:40Z Indexed on 2012/10/11 15:37 UTC
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I've added a combo box in the gui editor in MSVC 2010 pro in my MFC project. I have a list of strings I am grabbing from an external source and want to add them to my combo box. I've searched for a while, and every post seems to suggest I need to use the CComboBox class, however, I have no idea how to get the class variable from the resource ID of the combobox element in the gui editor.

In summary, how do I add a string to my combo box, either using a macro (like CB_ADDSTRING(RESOURCE_ID, "my string");) or using CComboBOx (something like CComboBox::GetObject(RESOURCE_ID)->AddString("blah");).

I do not do much win32 api/mfc programming, and just started fiddling around with it.

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