Show a text in DataGridView when it is empty

Question

How can I show a text in the grey part of a DataGridView when it's empty.

I found this example but not work in VB.net

GridView1.EmptyDataText="No Records Found";

Answer 1

EmptyDataText is a property of Web Forms GridView control. In Windows Forms, to show a text when DataGridView doesn't have any row, you need to render the text yourself. To do so, you can handle Paint event of DataGridView and render the text using TextRenderer.DrawText.

C#

private void dataGridView1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
    if (dataGridView1.Rows.Count == 0)
        TextRenderer.DrawText(e.Graphics, "No records found.",
            dataGridView1.Font, dataGridView1.ClientRectangle,
            dataGridView1.ForeColor, dataGridView1.BackgroundColor,
            TextFormatFlags.HorizontalCenter | TextFormatFlags.VerticalCenter);
}

VB.NET

Private Sub DataGridView1_Paint(sender As Object, e As PaintEventArgs) _
    Handles DataGridView1.Paint
    If DataGridView1.Rows.Count = 0 Then
        TextRenderer.DrawText(e.Graphics, "No records found.",
            DataGridView1.Font, DataGridView1.ClientRectangle,
            DataGridView1.ForeColor, DataGridView1.BackgroundColor,
            TextFormatFlags.HorizontalCenter Or TextFormatFlags.VerticalCenter)
    End If
End Sub