I am not sure if this is by design but when I bind a datasource that has no records or objects in a collection then the gridview's footer does not display.  I know in the datagrid I could still have a footer display if there were not items in the datagrid.

Is there a work around or some way I can get the footer to display even if I have no items in the Gridview.  I have showfooter set to true.

Thanks,

It is by design (bad design perhaps?).  GridView no longer displays the header/footer when there's no data to display.  There's EmptyDataText and EmptyDataRowStyle which can be used to display something pertinent when no data is found.  I rather liked the DataGrid's behavior when it comes to dealing with empty data.

It sure is bad design, but the EmptyDataText does not solve the problem either. It would simply display whatever text you define but will still not show the footer.
You will have to insert an empty object in the datasource (in case your datasource count is 0) and then on RowDataBound event hide this empty row. It is not a very good solution but a decent hack that works.

Gridview doesnt allow the footer to display if there are no records in its datasource.  So first add a dummy/empty but valid row/record/value to the gridview datasource before assigning and binding it to the gridview.  Then set the first row of the gridview to invisible.  An example is given below,

/* 

DataRow dr = dataView.Table.NewRow();

dataView.Table.Rows.Add(dr);

grd.DataSource = dataView;

grd.DataBind();

grd.Rows[0].Visible = false;

*/

Good luck - redsunbeer