?? Coalesce for empty string?

Question

Something I find myself doing more and more is checking a string for empty (as in \"\" or null) and a conditional operator.

A current example:

Answer 1

A slightly faster extension method than proposed earlier perhaps:

public static string Fallback(this string @this, string @default = "")
{
    return (@this == null || @this.Trim().Length == 0) ? @default : @this;
}