Have a control with about 5 selection drop-downs with around 15~20 rows per dropdown from a local MySQL table. Anyone have any idea why compilation takes so so long?
If the database you are accessing has a lot of tables and fields then this will cause a significant increase of compilation time. If this is the case try to limit it by setting a filter in your connection to prevent the unneccessary lookups of tables and fields. Other option might be a slow performance of your database.