Hello Patrick,
I will suggest you check this online demo, which shows how to use DropDownList widget with remote data.
Note that the DropDownList widget does not provide filtering functionality like the ComboBox. One possible solution is to use DataSouce.filter() method and re-fetch the data manually.
Kind regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team
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