HttpException (0×80004005): The IListSource does not contain any data sources - Anatomy

Posted on 05. May, 2009 by khader.

This is one of the common errors I saw when I was testing our new asp.net application recently. I asked my team, the answer was simple patch. But I wasn’t happy. I didn’t find any good explanation from anybody on internet either. I did little research. Here’s my explanation.
First, couple of points to note:

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Tooltip for GridView Column Headers (ASP.Net)

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by khader.

I just wanted to add auto tooltips for my GridView headers. There are couple of ways but I don’t want to use javascript and wanted to use simple ‘title’ attribute. It took couple of hours to get the working code supporting sortable columns. I thought it will be very useful for others. Here’s the code and logic [...]

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