Large Hierarchy Slow to Expand

[John Thompson]

I have a TreeListView with a large number of nodes (800+) nested 3 or 5 deep.  When I call the ExpandAll method of the TreeListView the expansion can take several minutes.  I there a way to cause the items of the TreeListView to be built during idle time?

[Stefan Dobrev]

Hello John,

We have just released a beta version of our new TreeListView control based on GridView. It contains significant performance improvements over the its predecessor, which was based on our TreeView implementation. Can you please upgrade your project to use the new component and check the expand speed? You can use ExpandHierarchyItem and ExpandAllHierarchyItems methods to expand the hierarchy. Also you can check the updated version of our online example here.

Sincerely yours,
Stefan Dobrev
the Telerik team

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[John Thompson]

Thanks.  I got it working using the two methods you cited and some additional coding.

What would be nice is if I could expand an item and also have the parents expand or better yet set the SelectedItem and have its parents expand.  My application does this via walking down the hierarcy and expanding each parent and invoking the UpdateLayout method until I reach the item I want selected.

[Stefan Dobrev]

Hi John,

We will definitely handle this scenario in the official version of the control so when you expand an item all its parents will be expanded as well. Thanks for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Stefan Dobrev
the Telerik team