This means that all, but the root nodes are loaded on demand, and only the expanded items and their direct children are rendered in the DOM, regardless of whether the actual data is available on the client or not. So with both local and remote data, the TreeList is optimized, and will render only the nodes that have to be visible.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Dimiter Topalov
Progress Telerik
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