Checking for null before ToString()

Question

Here\'s the scenario...

if (entry.Properties[\"something\"].Value != null)
  attribs.something = entry.Properties[\"something\"].Value.ToString();
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Answer 1

In C# 6.0 you can do it in a very elegant way:

attribs.something = entry.Properties["something"].Value?.ToString();

And here is an article about new null-conditional operator.