Ponder? its a basic usability Feature, Kendoui is supposed to be all about usability, surely this is Ponder? There should be a standard (easy/inbuilt) way to show that a grid data source has no records because that is the default opposite to a populated data grid. at the very least if data is empty then show "nothing" all mine does is leave the spinning ajax wheel running forever, so end users does not know, this means i have to write extra code just to implement this, so please consider this "feature"