Loading all dropdowns with cascading dropdown extender

Since the cascading dropdown extender loads all dropdowns with a webservice, is it faster to load all dropdowns with this even if cascading is not needed?

In other words, is it faster to load a large (100+) dropdown with the cascading dropdown extender than doing it on the page load?

Hi Red_bull_n_vodka,

red_bull_n_vodka:

Since the cascading dropdown extender loads all dropdowns with a webservice, is it faster to load all dropdowns with this even if cascading is not needed?

In other words, is it faster to load a large (100+) dropdown with the cascading dropdown extender than doing it on the page load?

Actually, CascadingDropDown will call its WebService as soon as it is initialized. So I don't think it will be prominent faster in your situation. To speed up the response times , I think you should pay more attention to WebService rather than the client implementation.For example, cache and connection pool etc.

I hope this help.

Best regards,

Jonathan