Generate Dynamic HTML Control

I've project in asp, where we are using Database to create html controls. As per the current logic, we are creating one application variable on application_onstart event, it contain all records of table containing screen name, and other html control related information. Based on the screen user has requeted we get all those records from application variable and generate the screen.
As per my knowledge this application variable contain around 8000 records, and since it is eating much time to maintain, and reducing speed, we want to remove this concept from our three tier based project.I've gone through XML, and XSLT concept, but before proceeding further,