Footer row on a grid with no records?

[Arthur Dent]

I have a grid which has no records at first. ... see the new empty text
property to specify text to show when there are no records, cool, cool.
Now comes the catcher though... i use the footer of my grid to add new
rows... the classic solution of template columns with textboxes in the
footers to type in values for new records. Only problem is... now when there
are no records, the footer doesnt show, so (without coding a whole new
mechanism) you cannot add a new row either since thats IN the footer.

Is there any way to force the GridView to show the Header/Footer even when
it is showing the EmptyText?

Thanks in advance,
- Arthur Dent.

 

[CaffieneRush]

How about replicating the header and footer row in the
EmptyDataTemplate?

 

[Arthur Dent]

Hm... i suppose that might work, though its kind of kludgey.