sandiya Jayasankaran
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I need a Autocomplete search in a text box(like Google search) and the values are from arraylist. The value selected should also be selected in Radgrid
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To implement this, you'll require.
1) Very fast + stable connection between your server(s) managing your lookup data.
2) Lightweight + fast AJAX round trip code infrastructure to implement your auto-suggest facility.
3) Highly intelligent server side caching of the part of your database containing auto-suggestion data.
Note: If I were building auto-suggest code, I'd start with the search - github auto suggestion search - pulling down the interesting code + getting it running. Then study the code I pulled down (I likely do many), finding/keeping best working code for my project.
Tip: It's highly unlikely you'll be using Microsoft tech for this, unless you have a small amount of data.
If you have massive data, you'll use a bare metal machine (no Cloud, VPS, VM tech) along with a well tuned LAMP Stack.
If you have small data, you can likely get away using a slow language like VB along with downloading entire search corpus (data set) into a local browser cache or the HTML5 dataset management system.