How to check object is null or empty in C#.NET 3.5?

Question

If objects contains null or empty then how to validate or check the condition for the same?

How to bool check whether object obj is null or Empty

I've code as follows:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        object obj = null;

        double d = Convert.ToDouble(string.IsNullOrEmpty(obj.ToString()) ? 0.0 : obj);
        Console.WriteLine(d.ToString());
    }
}

With this code i'm getting NullReference Exception as Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Pls help.

Here I'm not getting....

How to validate whether that object is null or Empty without converting into .ToString() ??

Is there an approach to check the same??

Answer 1

The problem that you are running into is that your object is of type, well, object. In order to evaluate it with string.IsNullOrEmpty, you should pass your object in with the cast to (string)

like so:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    object obj = null;

    double d = Convert.ToDouble(string.IsNullOrEmpty((string)obj) ? 0.0 : obj);
    Console.WriteLine(d.ToString());
}

This will work fine since you are not explicitly calling .ToString on your (nonexistent) object.