Show gridview footer on empty grid?

Question

just wanted to know what is the best and easiest way to show a gridview footer for data entry even when the gridview is empty ?

Answer 1

Ideally you only want to show the dummy row if there are no records in the table yet. So set your SelectCommand to something like this:

SELECT [ID], FirstName, LastName, Email FROM Customers union SELECT 0 [ID], '' FirstName, '' LastName, '' Email where 0 in (SELECT COUNT(1) from Customers)

That way if the count > 0, the dummy row isn't returned.

Note that the dummy row does not have a FROM clause in it.