asp:menu - What are the 'Items Remaining' that take so long to load

[mbiro]

I have a master page with an asp:menu control. The control has both static and dynamic templates. each page I go to on my site, there is a message in the status bar at the bottom of the browser that says '(150 Items Remaining) and it counts down from 150 to 0. This takes several seconds on each page load. I have tried binding the control to both XML and a sql server sitemap, it makes no difference. It always does the countdown of remaining items. If I remove the menu control, the page loads fast with no countdown. Have I done something wrong? I tried adjusting the caching, but again no affect.

 

[mbiro]

Here is the control:

<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" Orientation="Horizontal" DynamicBottomSeparatorImageUrl="imagesDA/sep.gif" DynamicPopOutImageUrl="imagesDA/expand.gif" StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="false" StaticPopOutImageUrl="" runat="server" BackColor="#000000" DynamicHorizontalOffset="2" Font-Names="Verdana" ForeColor="#990000" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="5" StaticSubMenuIndent="0px" StaticDisplayLevels="1" DynamicMenuStyle-BackColor="#000000" DynamicMenuStyle-BorderColor="#FFFFFF" DynamicMenuStyle-BorderStyle="Solid" DynamicMenuStyle-BorderWidth="2px" SkipLinkText="" DisappearAfter="1000" >
    <StaticItemTemplate><td><img src="imagesDA/<%# Eval("Value") %>" width="3" height="23" border="0" id="mainNav_div<%# right(Eval("NavigateUrl"),1) %>" alt="" /></td><td><a href="<%# Eval("NavigateUrl") %>" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('mainNav_div<%# right(Eval("NavigateUrl"),1) %>','','imagesDA/mainNav_div<%# right(Eval("NavigateUrl"),1) %>_over.gif','mainNav_div<%# cint(right(Eval("NavigateUrl"),1))+1 %>','','imagesDA/mainNav_div<%# cint(right(Eval("NavigateUrl"),1))+1 %>_over.gif',1)"><img height="23px" style="padding:0 0 0 0; border-width:0px;" onmouseover="this.src='<%# "imagesDA/" & Eval("ImageUrl") & "_over.gif" %>'" onmouseout="this.src='<%# "imagesDA/" & Eval("ImageUrl") & ".gif" %>'" src="<%# "imagesDA/" & Eval("ImageUrl") & ".gif" %>" /></a></td></StaticItemTemplate>
   <DynamicItemTemplate>
    <a href="<%# Eval("NavigateUrl") %>"><div class="mainNavD<%# Eval("ImageUrl") %>" onmouseover="this.className='mainNavDHover<%# Eval("ImageUrl") %>'" onmouseout="this.className='mainNavD<%# Eval("ImageUrl") %>'">
      <%# Eval("Text") %>
    </div></a>
  </DynamicItemTemplate>
       </asp:Menu>

 

[ca8msm]

You'll have to use a client-side tool to check what is being rendered to the browser. Firefox has a range of add-in tools that will help you.


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