make gridview appear with 0 rows

Question

User-1767698477 posted

How do I made a gridview appear when  0 rows are returned?  I just want the skeleton. I added a button on the gridview header to add a record on the fly. I need access to that.

Answer 1

User-1545767719 posted

My ct variable below is not doing the trick.

What do you expect as ct and what is the result?

Answer 2

User-1767698477 posted

I got my row count fixed I think. I will know later after I add back a row. Right now the table has 0 rows.

Answer 3

User-1545767719 posted

Don't edit your question after response to it has been given. 

Answer 4

User1535942433 posted

Hi sking,

How do I made a gridview appear when  0 rows are returned?  I just want the skeleton. I added a button on the gridview header to add a record on the fly. I need access to that.

According to your description,I don't understand your meanings.Do you need a gridview only head? Is there a button in the head to add new row?

Best regards,

Yijing Sun

Answer 5

User-943250815 posted

Try set Gridview property ShowHeaderWhenEmpty="True", this combined with at least Gridview.Databind (if bind is in code behind) or DataSource Control (sqldatasource, linqdatasource) will show it on page, other than gridview does not exist on page

Answer 6

User-1767698477 posted

Thanks Jzero. Yes, I tried your suggestion and that does work for me. I only added the ShowHeaderWhenEmpty="True" to the gridview and it is working and showing the header row with my Add button to add a record.

 <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" AutoGenerateColumns="False" CellPadding="3" HorizontalAlign="Center" OnRowDataBound="Gridview1_rowdatabound" DataKeyNames="LiabID" RowStyle-Wrap="False" HeaderStyle-Wrap="False" ShowHeaderWhenEmpty="True">