How to determine whether object reference is null?

Question

What is the best way to determine whether an object reference variable is null?

Is it the following?

MyObject myObjVar = null;
if (myObjVar == null)
{
    // do stuff
}

Answer 1

You can use Object.ReferenceEquals

if (Object.ReferenceEquals(null, myObjVar)) 
{
   ....... 
} 

This would return true, if the myObjVar is null.

Answer 2

The way you are doing is the best way

if (myObjVar == null)
{
    // do stuff
}

but you can use null-coalescing operator ?? to check, as well as assign something

var obj  = myObjVar ?? new MyObject();