Tree common control node count limit

[sundance]

Knowledge base article #182231 discusses a problem with the TreeView nodes
count property limited to 32767:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182231

The article is dated and specifically talks about this being a VB issue,
however I'm seeing similar problems i.e. very poor performance, wacky v.
scrollbar, when using the windows tree common control with more than 64K
items from a win 32 application.
- Can anyone confirm that this indeed is a problem with the underlying tree
ctrl, not just a problem with its VB ActiveX wrapper?
- Is there a known workaround or fix for this? I.e. can the win32 tree ctrl
be used with say 100,000 or more items?

Thanks in advance,
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sundance