Handle DBNull in C#

Question

Is there a better/cleaner way to do this?

int stockvalue = 0;
if (!Convert.IsDBNull(reader[\"StockValue\"]))
    stockvalue = (int)reader[\"StockValue\"];
         


        

Answer 1

You could do this conversion directly in your DB-query, thus avoiding the special case alltogether.

But I wouldn't call that 'cleaner', unless you can consistently use that form in your code, since you would lose information by returning '0' instead of NULL from the DB.