DataGridView component with EmptyDataText Property - Windows Form Application

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Introduction

Gets or sets the text to display in the empty data row rendered when a DataGridView control is bound to a data source that does not contain any records.

Background

The empty data row is displayed in a ASP.NET GridView control when the data source that is bound to the control does not contain any records. Use the <span>EmptyDataText</span> property to specify the text to display in the empty data row using EmptyDataRowStyle in ASP.NET. But this is not in Windows Form Application, so I have created a Component for this functionality.

Using the Code

The following screen displays properties of EmptyDataText Grid component.

Binding grid with 0 records:

After binding grid, it looks like:

The following code is self explanatory. The following code has been written in Component\DataGrid.cs. In DataGrid.cs, I have Overrides Pint method of DataGridView.

The following code has been written in Form1.cs:

Points of Interest

Now I will try to support automatic label display instead of checking the following lines of code:

//You should use only following 5 lines of code.
            dgEmptyData.DataSource = dt;
            if (dt != null && dt.Rows.Count > 0)
                //Remove text when records exists
                dgEmptyData.EmptyDataText = "";
            else
                //Assign text when no record found
                dgEmptyData.EmptyDataText = txtEmptyText.Text;

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