[Solved] Menu using SiteMap performance/scalability

[Adam Hubble]

Hi,

I have been looking into the sitemap and I just wondered if I need to worry about any performance issues when using sitemap file inconjunction with radmenu?

Our site has about 4300 pages, so my biggest concern is that the sitemap file would be too large for memory, anybody have any experience of this? 

I assume that radmenu itself should be ok as the site is obviously sub-foldered, so menu will not have to load so many loads for each page load.

Thanks,
Matt 

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Matt Davis,

RadMenu loads all items supplied by the SiteMap unless the MaxDataBindDepth is set. This would result in 4200 menu items to render which would significantly impact the performance of your site because of the increased output. If you still need to load all items I recommend implementing load on demand without the use of SiteMapDataSource.

Regards,
Albert
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[Adam Hubble]

I see.

How about If each directory has its own sitemap file? Surely radmenu will then only load the nodes for that sitemap?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Matt Davis,

RadMenu loads what the sitemap provider (via the SitemapDataSource) tells it to. I guess if you have separate sitemap files it will populate only those. You may need to configure the SiteMapDataSource to do so.

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Albert
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[Adam Hubble]

Ok, you see the database approach is not really workable so I'm going to have a look at putting this in a user control and exposing some properties for setting sitemapprovider.

Thanks for your help Albert.