No records text in RadGridView without using behaviors

Requirements
RadControls version	2010.2.812.1040
.NET version	4
Visual Studio version	2010
programming language	c#
browser support	all browsers supported by RadControls

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Most often we want to show a "No records found..." message on the grid when there are no records bound to the grid. This project demonstrates how to create a custom RadGridView to handle this.

The custom grid takes care of
- not showing the no records message on load on a empty grid
- showing the "no records" message when no data is bound (probably as a result of searh results)
- hiding the "no records" message.

The grid has 2 dependency properties
- HasNoRecords (bool?)
- NoRecordsText (string)

Of the above 2 properties, HasNoRecords needs be to bound to a bool? value in the views view model (or code behind) which identifies if there are any records. The NoRecordsText may or may not be data bound. It can even be hardcoded as below.

Useage is as simple as below


Please provide your feedback on this.

Cheers,
Ganesh

Hello Ganesh Shivshankar,

Thank you sharing this code with the community. Your Telerik points have been updated. 

Regards,
Milan
the Telerik team

when i run ur code am getting this error.

The type 'CustomRadGrid' was not found. [Line: 10 Position: 168].

in my application am added the norecordsgridview namespace and customradgrid class file also.
am getting the property content is set more then once error for this line.
here am sending my code.

<telerik:RadGridView x:Name="rgvMeterReads" ItemsSource="{Binding Data}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Margin="0,0,0,0" ShowGroupPanel="False" AlternateRowBackground="#FFFF66" AlternationCount="2" ShowColumnHeaders="True" RowIndicatorVisibility="Collapsed" RowHeight="15" Width="1000" Height="auto">
                          
                            <telerik:RadGridView.Resources>
                                <Style TargetType="telerik:GridViewHeaderCell">
                                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
                                    <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black" />
                                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Blue"/>
                                </Style>
                            </telerik:RadGridView.Resources>
                            <telerik:RadGridView.HeaderRowStyle>
                                <Style TargetType="telerik:GridViewHeaderRow">
                                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="#66CCFF" />
                                </Style >
                            </telerik:RadGridView.HeaderRowStyle>
                        </telerik:RadGridView>

                    <NoRecordsGridView:CustomRadGrid Grid.Row="0" ItemsSource="{Binding DataItems}" AutoGenerateColumns="True" HasNoRecords="{Binding HasNoRecords}" NoRecordsText="No data found..."/>

Hi,

I have modified the project slightly and update it with the latest binaries. You can find it attached.

Kind regards,
Didie
the Telerik team

Hi,

 

Is there a built in functionality for this in the RadGrid nowadays?

Thanks,

Abner