How can I hide a repeater in ASP.NET C# if the DataSource contains no items?

Question

I have an ASP.NET page that uses a repeater nested within another repeater to generate a listing of data. It\'s to the effect of the following:

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread and the answer above is a very nice solution, but I had a similar problem and have found another vary simple solution I thought I would share also. This validates just fine and displays the same.

Just change your footer template to:

 
            
This will not show.