How to persist a GridView header when control contains no row data

[keithb]

Is there some way to persist the header when a GridView control has no rows
containing data?

Thanks,

Keith

[JudahReeves]

You can subclass the GridView and add this to OnDataBound:
this.Controls.Add(new Table());
GridViewRow header = this.CreateRow(0, -1, DataControlRowType.Header,
DataControlRowState.Normal);
DataControlField[] fields = new DataControlField[this.Columns.Count];
this.InitializeRow(header, fields);
((Table)this.Controls[0]).Rows.Add(header);

[JudahReeves]

Noticed something:

this.Controls.Add(new Table());
GridViewRow header = this.CreateRow(0, -1, DataControlRowType.Header,
DataControlRowState.Normal);
DataControlField[] fields = new DataControlField[this.Columns.Count];

this.Columns.CopyTo(fields, 0);

this.InitializeRow(header, fields);
((Table)this.Controls[0]).Rows.Add(header);