Repeater with Empty Data Template

Overview

Apart from Paging Support, one of the features that Repeater lacks is the "Empty Data Template" that will be shown when there is no result too display. MONA blogged a very simple method to implement a "Empty Data Template" for Repeater, and this implementation does not include writing anything in code behind.

Reference

Repeater with Empty Data Template

Code Snippet

I modified the code from MONA's blog a bit, by changing the "Label" to "Panel" inside the Footer Template. In this way we can treat the "Panel" as "Empty Data Template".

<asp:Repeater ID="RptrContacts" runat="server">

    <ItemTemplate>

        <!-- Add your Item Template Here -->

    </ItemTemplate>

    <FooterTemplate>

        <asp:Panel ID="pnlEmpty" runat="server" Visible='<%#bool.Parse((RptrContacts.Items.Count==0).ToString())%>'>

            <asp:Label ID="Label1" Text="no result" runat="server" />

        </asp:Panel>

    </FooterTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>