Method call if not null in C#

Question

Is it possible to somehow shorten this statement?

if (obj != null)
    obj.SomeMethod();

because I happen to write this a lot and it gets p

Answer 1

Events can be initialized with an empty default delegate which is never removed:

public event EventHandler MyEvent = delegate { };

No null-checking necessary.

[Update, thanks to Bevan for pointing this out]

Be aware of the possible performance impact, though. A quick micro benchmark I did indicates that handling an event with no subscribers is 2-3 times slower when using the the "default delegate" pattern. (On my dual core 2.5GHz laptop that means 279ms : 785ms for raising 50 million not-subscribed events.). For application hot spots, that might be an issue to consider.