C# ?: Conditional Operator

Question

I have this extract of C# 2.0 source code:

object valueFromDatabase;
decimal result;
valueFromDatabase = DBNull.Value;

result = (decimal)(valueFromDatabase          


        

Answer 1

Your line should be:

result = valueFromDatabase != DBNull.value ? (decimal)valueFromDatabase : 0m;

0m is the decimal constant for zero

Both parts of a conditional operator should evaluate to the same data type