Reasons for an IBOutlet to be nil

Question

What are the reasons why an IBOutlet (connected) could be nil?

I have one in may application which is always nil, even if I re

Answer 1

One reason I just got stung by: If the nib file is not included in the target resource files for some reason (like you had the targets unchecked when you added it to the project), Xcode doesn't throw an error but all the outlets from that nib are going to be null...