How do I create a Null Object in C#

Question

Martin Fowler\'s Refactoring discusses creating Null Objects to avoid lots of

if (myObject == null)

tests. What is the right way to do th

Answer 1

Go look up the amount of pain that interesting concepts, such as DbNull, have caused and think about if this is actually a good idea.

Protip: if you are constantly checking for null references, you probably should rethink the API a bit to help preclude null objects closer to the top of the stack.

Protip II: having something throw an exception when there is an unexpected null is actually fine and dandy. Things should go boom if you have nulls where there shouldn't be null.