When I started at Microsoft a few months ago there was a brief discussion of the pro's and con's of exposing Nullable property values in our controls. On one hand, nullables are awkward to work with in some languages (read: C#) and are poorly understood by some of our customers. On the other hand the inability to express "no data" is an impedance mismatch when data-binding to data retrieved from a database.
In the end we chose to embrace nullable values and I'm glad because the fact that WinForms controls didn't use them caused me tremendous pain in my former position as an app developer. That said it can't be denied that working with nullables can be a pain, especially when you don't care about the distinction between a null value and the default value. Someone ran into this problem on the Silverlight Discussions mailing list today and I thought of a trick that hadn't occurred to me before: use an extension method.
public static T ValueOrDefault<T>(this Nullable<T> that) where T : struct { if (!that.HasValue) { return default(T); } return that.Value; }
Now we don't have to remember to check for nullness before pulling a value out of a nullable property to avoid a potential NullReferenceException. In short this...
if (myCheckbox.IsChecked != null && myCheckbox.IsChecked.Value) { // ... }
...becomes this...
if (myCheckbox.IsChecked.ValueOrDefault()) { // ... }
...and hopefully nullables just got a little less awkward.
-- Edit. I completely missed the GetValueOrDefault method on Nullable. Oops.
3 comments:
I would recommend the coalesce operator ?? instead.
if (myCheckbox.IsChecked ?? false) { // ...}
There's also Nullable<T>.GetValueOrDefault:
if (myCheckbox.IsChecked.GetValueOrDefault()) { // ...}
You can just check for an explicitly true value...
if (myCheckbox.IsChecked == true)
{
// ...
}
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