Empty string if null

Question

I have this in my code:

SelectList(blah, \"blah\", \"blah\", cu.Customer.CustomerID.ToString())

It gives a error when it returns null, how

Answer 1

(C# 2.0 - C# 5.0)

The ternary operator works, but if you want even shorter expression working on arbitrary objects you can use:

(myObject ?? "").ToString()

Here is real-life example from my code:

 private HtmlTableCell CreateTableCell(object cellContents)
 {
     return new HtmlTableCell()
     {
         InnerText = (cellContents ?? "").ToString()             
     };
 }