Null-conditional operator and !=

Question

With the introduction of Null-Conditional Operators in C#, for the following evaluation,

if (instance != null && instance.Val != 0)

Answer 1

You could make use of null coallescing operator:

instance?.Val ?? 0

When instance is null or instance is not null but Val is, the above expression would evaluate to 0. Otherwise the value of Val would be returned.