Best way to check if listview is empty?

Question

Believe it or not I searched on google but I was not able to find how to see if a listview is empty. I want to hide some controls if so. I tried lv.items.count but it always returns 0. Whether or not the control is empty.

Solution 1

Icarus is right about the order of binding mattering, but I'd like to point out that lv.Items.Any() is a more efficient way of seeing if there are any items to display. No sense in counting the whole list if you just want to know if at least 1 thing is in it.

Solution 2

lv.Items.Count would return 0 only if you check before you bind the data. If you check after you bind the data, it returns the number of rows.

Comments

[Diego Alves Do Carmo]

I used it in the Load event of the page the result was always 0. Now I placed it inside the databound of the listiview and it worked

[Diego Alves Do Carmo]

nice I didn't know this method