Take advantage of the NULL Object pattern to avoid writing too much boilerplate code in your application when checking for null values A null object is one that doesn’t have any referenced value. The ...

Null or nonexistent data gets complicated when the application expects a data value and gets nothing or unexpected values; that's when you must perform coding that properly handles these situations to ...

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By being stricter with nulls in C# 8.0, Microsoft seeks to eliminate this issue. Warnings will be issued when values of ordinary reference types, such as string, object, and IDisposable, are null. But ...

One very good candidate, according to Tony Hoare (developer of quicksort and one of the early implementors of ALGOL), is his invention of the null reference. By allowing programmers to submit a ...