If you want to show an text in a Kendo UI grid, you could use CSS, as suggested on stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23476978/display-a-message-within-the-kendo-grid-when-its-empty But if you want to completely hide the gird and show a message,
Kendo UI MVVM allows functions of objects to be called in the binding syntax: <div class="totals"><span>Totals: </span><span data-bind="text: products.data().length"></span></div> In this case the viewmodel property [products] is a kendo.data.DataSource object. To get the total count
Just a reminder: Visual Studio contains code snippets for many different “languages”, like CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C# etc. When you want to write a for loop in JavaScript, just hit CTRL + SPACE, then type