How to show gridview footer row when no data present in datasorce

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Hello all....

I have a grid-view on my page and i have used footer row of grid-view to insert new data. The problem that i am facing is that is when there is no data present in the database it is not showing grid-view. But i need grid-view to be shown on the page so that user can enter data. Please help me out.

<asp:GridView DataKeyNames="ID" ID="Grid_Categories" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
        Width="250px" onrowcancelingedit="Grid_Categories_RowCancelingEdit"
        onrowdeleting="Grid_Categories_RowDeleting"
        onrowediting="Grid_Categories_RowEditing"
        onrowupdating="Grid_Categories_RowUpdating"
        onselectedindexchanged="Grid_Categories_SelectedIndexChanged"
        onrowcommand="Grid_Categories_RowCommand" ShowFooter="True"
        onrowdatabound="Grid_Categories_RowDataBound" EmptyDataText="no valyue">

    <Columns>
    <asp:TemplateField ItemStyle-Width="165">
    <ItemTemplate>
    <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="link_category" Text='<%# Eval("Category") %>' CommandName="Select" CausesValidation="true"></asp:LinkButton>
    </ItemTemplate>
    <EditItemTemplate>
    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtcategory" Text='<%# Eval("Category") %>'></asp:TextBox>
    </EditItemTemplate>

    <FooterTemplate>
    Name &nbsp;&nbsp;
    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtnewcategory"></asp:TextBox>
    </FooterTemplate>

<ItemStyle Width="165px"></ItemStyle>
    </asp:TemplateField>
    <asp:TemplateField>

    <ItemTemplate>
    <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="link_Edit" Text="Edit" CommandName="Edit" CausesValidation="true"></asp:LinkButton>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;
    <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="link_Delete" Text="Delete" CommandName="Delete" CausesValidation="true"></asp:LinkButton>
    </ItemTemplate><pre lang="c#">
    <EditItemTemplate>
    <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="link_Update" Text="Update" CommandName="Update" CausesValidation="true"></asp:LinkButton>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;
    <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="link_Cancel" Text="Cancel" CommandName="Cancel" CausesValidation="true"></asp:LinkButton>
    </EditItemTemplate>
    <FooterTemplate>
    <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btn_insert1" Text="Insert" CommandName="Insert" CausesValidation="true" />
    </FooterTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
    </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>