data-controls

Curious if others feel the same as me. To me, controls such as datagrid/gridview/formview/etc. are great for presentations or demo's only. To take the time and tweak this controls, override their default behavior (hooking into their silly events etc.) is a big headache. The only control that I use is the repeater, since it offers me the most flexibility over the others. In short, they are pretty much bloatware. I'd rather weave my own html/css, use my own custom paging queries. Again, if you need to throw up a quick page these controls are great (especially if you are trying to woo people into

Is there a short way to make a FooterTemplate (in a GridView) always visible, even when DataSource is empty? If you want it to always display, regardless of content, can't you just put the footer html outside the GridView , instead of in the FooterTemplate ? If that's not an option for some reason, then you can either add an null row to your data source if it's empty , or subclass the GridView & override the default behaviour . Those are the only options I'm aware of (although its been a while since the last time I used a GridView ). Aximili I was having trouble with this as well. The link