What is the proper way to check for null values?

Question

I love the null-coalescing operator because it makes it easy to assign a default value for nullable types.

 int y = x ?? -1;

That\'s great,

Answer 1

create an auxiliary function

public static String GetValue( string key, string default )
{
    if ( Session[ key ] == null ) { return default; }
    return Session[ key ].toString();
}


string y = GetValue( 'key', 'none' );