Empty DataList

[Liming]

Hi all,

I have a empty DataList, such I want to display a message inside a <ItempTemplate>
or similar tags.. but there is no things like <emptyItemTemplate>.. so how
should I approach this? My graphic designer won't make any compromises..
the "No data avaiable" messages has to be in between <headtempelater> and
<footertemplate>.

Thanks a lot.

[michael]

Haven't messed with the datalist, but quite a bit with the datagrid. What
I do is create a new datasource and databind it to the grid on the fly.
e.g.

if MainDataTable.Rows.Count.Equals(0) then
Dim dt as DataTable
dim r as DataRow
dt = New DataTable
dt.columns.add("EmptyList", Type.GetType("System.String")
r = dt.NewRow
r(0) = "Unable to obtain the requested data."
dt.Rows.Add(r)
myDataGrid.ShowHeader = False
myDataGrid.DataSource = dt
myDataGrid.DataBind
end if

Hope this helps,
Michael

"Liming" <lmxu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have a empty DataList, such I want to display a message inside a <ItempTemplate>
>or similar tags.. but there is no things like <emptyItemTemplate>.. so how
>should I approach this? My graphic designer won't make any compromises..
>the "No data avaiable" messages has to be in between <headtempelater> and
><footertemplate>.
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>