Forms Data Controls :: Setting EmptyDataText From Code Behind

I would like to be able to set the EmptyDataText property using code-behind. I have created a custom GridView control called PagingGridView. Here is the definition:

public class PagingGridView : GridView {
}

In my ASPX page, I would created a new GridView definition by doing this:

<cc:PagingGridView id="MyGrid" runat="server" ><cc:/PagingGridView>

When I databind the control, I would like my custom control to automatically detect an empty data source and build a table with all the header columns and a row containing the empty data text. The rendered code for the empty data source would be like:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Col1</td><td>Col2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">No Records to display</td>
</tr>
</table>

My initial thought was to override the EmptyDataText property but I could not get that to work.