Question

I am working with an ASP.NET MVC application.

There is a requirement that a user be able to select an item from a ListBox that could contain over 30,000 entries.

Is there a dynamic way to populate the contents of this ListBox using an Ajax call – that would perform well?

Would I be better off just populating the ListBox control on the server and then having the user wait while the page renders with the 30,000 entries?

Would performance be better if I adopted some sort of jQuery solution?

Any suggestions on how to most efficiently deal with this scenario (without having the client change the requirement :-))?

Answer 1

This sounds like a bad idea – 30,000 entries? How would you feel if you had to select from a list this size?

It is better to use autocomplete for this type of use case.