Question

I have made a grid view in asp.net, when there is no record, grid is not shown, i want that if there is no record, grid must be shown, but there must be a message, record not found with gridview headers available. I mean gridview must be there, but instead of rows there should be a message in it, record not found, i have not used any code for fetching data in string, i just used datasource, please help.

Answer 1

The GridView has an EmptyDataText property, where if there is no record found it will be displayed.

EmptyDataText="Record Not Found"

If you want to show the header of GridView, then you can make the DataTable have all the columns that are in your DataSource and add an Empty Row and bind that DataTable if your original DataSource does not contain data.