Repeater with Empty Data Template

most of us are using Repeaters to display Data also we faced the situation of retrieving no result to display so the Repeater will be Empty or we will need to handle this case from code behind to check the number of items and if zero we show a label with No Result found or no records to display message.

we can do this with a simpler way and with no need to write anything in code behind ,let's see how

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

<ItemTemplate>

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

</ItemTemplate>

<FooterTemplate>

<asp:Label ID="lblEmpty"

Text="no result" runat="server"

Visible='<%#bool.Parse((RptrContacts.Items.Count==0).ToString())%>'>

</asp:Label>

</FooterTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

here we will display a label with "no result" message in the footer we just need to add a label and set it's text property with the message we want.

then we set the Visible property of the label with the value coming out from the following expression

<%#bool.Parse((RptrContacts.Items.Count==0).ToString())%>

it checks if the number of Items equals zero or not , if it equals zero it returns True so the label will be visible and if not it will return False so the label will be invisible.