"If you assign a stringlist to a combobox items property using ':=', you still have to free the stringlist." This tweet by Nick Hodges is probably very obvious to any seasoned Delphi developer, however I think it's far from obvious to someone new to Delphi. In this video we take a look why we need to "free the stringlist". Watch on Youtube, it's less than 5 minutes long.
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