http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AlwaysShowHeaderFoot/Wiki/View.aspx?title=HomeAlwaysShowHeaderFoot Wiki Rss Descriptionhttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AlwaysShowHeaderFoot/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home&version=3<div class="wikidoc"> <b>Resource Page Description</b><br />A more elegant solution to display GridView header and footer when the data source is empty. <br /> <br />I think the need to always show the header and footer of a GridView is pretty common.<br />When I first ran into this problem, I went to Google and found lots of content about this.<br />Some suggest tampering with the data source to add an extra row if it’s empty. Others show overriding the CreateChildControls method.<br /> <br />I was not satisfied with either of these solutions. I didn’t like that dirty feeling I had by tampering with the data source. And I didn’t like overriding the CreateChildControls method because it simply didn’t work of me anyway. This solution only gave the appearance of the header and footer existing. I ran into issues because I was programmatically adding controls to the header. Upon postback, if the data source was empty, the control hierarchy would not be the same as before thus causing an error.<br /> <br /> <br />I blogged about this here<br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/joewrobel/archive/2008/01/30/a-more-elegant-solution-to-display-gridview-header-and-footer-when-the-data-source-is-empty.aspx" class="externalLink">http://weblogs.asp.net/joewrobel/archive/2008/01/30/a-more-elegant-solution-to-display-gridview-header-and-footer-when-the-data-source-is-empty.aspx<span class="externalLinkIcon"></span></a><br /> </div>robolizeThu, 31 Jan 2008 03:52:21 GMTUPDATED WIKI: Home 20080131Ahttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AlwaysShowHeaderFoot/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home&version=2<div class="wikidoc"> <b>Resource Page Description</b><br />A more elegant solution to display GridView header and footer when the data source is empty. <br /> <br />I think the need to always show the header and footer of a GridView is pretty common.<br />When I first ran into this problem, I went to Google and found lots of content about this.<br />Some suggest tampering with the data source to add an extra row if it’s empty. Others show overriding the CreateChildControls method.<br /> <br />I was not satisfied with either of these solutions. I didn’t like that dirty feeling I had by tampering with the data source. And I didn’t like overriding the CreateChildControls method because it simply didn’t work of me anyway. This solution only gave the appearance of the header and footer existing. I ran into issues because I was programmatically adding controls to the header. Upon postback, if the data source was empty, the control hierarchy would not be the same as before thus causing an error.<br /> </div>robolizeThu, 31 Jan 2008 03:22:27 GMTUPDATED WIKI: Home 20080131A