GridView - using CSS-Friendly Control Adapters removes EmptyDataTemplate and EmptyDataText

Question

As pointed out in the question:

• EmptyDataTemplate and EmptyDataText not working in GridView

  using CSS-Friendly Control Adapters removes the data that

Answer 1

Build cssfriendly from source instead of using the download link. Currently the latest is http://cssfriendly.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/24242 and EmptyDataText is working fine for me when I use that source.