What is the best way to deal with DBNull's

Question

I frequently have problems dealing with DataRows returned from SqlDataAdapters. When I try to fill in an object using code like this:

Answer 1

For some reason I've had problems with doing a check against DBNull.Value, so I've done things slightly different and leveraged a property within the DataRow object:

if (row.IsNull["fooColumn"])
{
   value = string.Empty();
}
{
else
{
   value = row["fooColumn"].ToString;
}