Show header of a empty Gridview for Datasource is List<Data>

Question

I am using a Gridview with datasource is a List. How can I show the header if the List is null or for a empty gridview?

Answer 1

You can use HeaderTemplate property to setup the head programatically or use ListView instead if you are using .NET 3.5.

or

You can even try below

//if data exists

if (dtSource.Rows.Count != 0)
{
grdView.DataSource = dtSource;
grdView.DataBind();
}
else
{
 //Other wise add a emtpy "New Row" to the datatable and then hide it after binding.
 dtFunding.Rows.Add(dtSource.NewRow());
 grdView.DataSource = dtSource;
 grdView.DataBind();
 grdView.Rows[0].Visible = false;
}

Answer 2

See A more elegant solution to display GridView header and footer when the data source is empty.

Answer 3

Please see the link below

http://asimsajjad.blogspot.com/2009/04/empty-data-template-of-gridview-control.html

Hope that will help.

Answer 4

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