VBA: Conditional - Is Nothing

Question

There is an If condition in a VBA application as seen below:

If Not My_Object Is Nothing Then
My_Object.Compute

When the code

Answer 1

In my sample code, I was setting my object to nothing, and I couldn't get the "not" part of the if statement to work with the object. I tried if My_Object is not nothing and also if not My_Object is nothing. It may be just a syntax thing I can't figure out but I didn't have time to mess around, so I did a little workaround like this:

if My_Object is Nothing Then
    'do nothing
Else
    'Do something
End if