Show header of a empty Gridview for Datasource is List

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?

Possible duplicate of [GridView - Show headers on empty data source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/354369/gridview-show-headers-on-empty-data-source) — , Jul 01 '17 at 14:43

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 28 '12 at 17:11

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if you are using fx4.0 then Set ShowHeaderWhenEmpty to true in Grid view

please look at below code

asp:GridView ID="gvPreview" runat="server" ShowHeaderWhenEmpty="True"

edited Jan 28 '12 at 17:11

shanethehat

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answered Jan 28 '12 at 13:15

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '10 at 06:12

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

answered Jan 11 '10 at 06:12

Pavel Chuchuva

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 11 '10 at 06:09

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;
}

Show header of a empty Gridview for Datasource is List

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