If the datalist is empty show a error message

I have a search funtion on my website that binds the results to a datalist. Is it possible to count the results and if the results quals '0' write a error message such as 'No results found please try again' to the screen in a label perhaps??

Not really sure where to start with this one.

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Anurag Thakur

8/22/2022 - Mon

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Faizan Sarwar

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daveamour

3/2/2009

Yep as above but put a label or literal in place where you want the message to appear and then replace //your message above with YourLiteral.Text = "No results returned" or something simillar.
Do remember to set EnableViewState to false for this control though!

prairiedog

3/2/2009

How do you bind your DataList?

Anurag Thakur

3/2/2009

this link might also provide you some insites
http://forums.asp.net/p/1077040/1584485.aspx

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