Displaying Text in the client area of the grid

[Shwetha R]

hi,
i am filling the gridcontrol from the data i get from the database. If i dont get any data from the database, i set the rowcount of the grid to "0" and i want to display a text in the client area of the grid as "No records found".
can anyone give me a solution for displaying a text in client area(empty space when only the header row is present) of the GridControl?

i dont want to bother the user by displaying a messagebox.
thanks & regards
shwetha

[stanleyj]

Hi Shwetha, You can achieve this by deriving the grid and overriding the OnPaint method. In the override, call the baseclass, and then use e.Graphics.DrawString to draw the string. Here is a simple try. Best regards, Stanley