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 EmptyDataText 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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