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

Add the following to RenderContents in GridViewAdapter.cs right before the ///// BODY //// section /////////////// EmptyDataTemplate ///////////////////////

if (gridView.Rows.Count == 0) {
    //Control[0].Control[0] s/b the EmptyDataTemplate.
    if (gridView.HasControls()) {
        if (gridView.Controls[0].HasControls()) {
            if (gridView.Controls[0].Controls[0] is GridViewRow) {
                rows.Clear();
                rows.Add(gridView.Controls[0].Controls[0]);
                gvrc = new GridViewRowCollection(rows);
                WriteRows(writer, gridView, gvrc, "tfoot");
            }
        }
    }
}   

And add the following to GetRowClass right before return className.Trim();

//// EmptyDataTemplate 
if ((row.RowType & DataControlRowType.EmptyDataRow) == DataControlRowType.EmptyDataRow) {
className += " AspNet-GridView-Empty ";
}

Finally, if you want to override the standard tfoot style, add a CSS section

.AspNet-GridView table tfoot tr.AspNet-GridView-Empty td
{

}