This weeks lunchtime training at SSW was about dealing with large (over 50,000 records) in ASP.NET. It was also my first screencast, so be sure to check out the video.

The Databound Drop Down List

I covered the disadvantages of trying to display a list of clients in a drop down list. The rendered page for 50,000 records

The drop down list:

• Rendered out a 5MB page
• Took 17 minutes to load on a dialup account