GridView and empty datasources

Question

I've got a gridview and I want it to display the header row even if there isn't any data in the collection that it's binding to.

Any ideas on how to do this neatly?

Answer 1

Use the <EmptyDataTemplate> of the GridView control to define a table to be displayed if the data source contains no data. For example

<EmptyDataTemplate>
    <table class="Standard" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
            <th style="width: 25%;">
                Header 1</th>
            <th style="width: 25%;">
                Header 2</th>
            <th style="width: 25%;">
                Header 3</th>
            <th style="width: 25%;">
                Header 4`</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td style="text-align: center; font-size: 1em; font-style: italic; padding: 1em 1em 1em 1em;"
                colspan="4">
                --- No results found ---
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</EmptyDataTemplate>

Answer 2

Dears i was writing in my blog about this issue but for c# , you can review the post and check if it will be helpful or not ,

http://blog.waleedmohamed.net/2009/04/show-grid-view-header-and-footer-when.html

i was using a generic way with an helper to retrieve an empty list to fill the gird please check and if u have any quest don't hesitate to contact me or ask it on stack site