Is there such a thing as a chained NULL check?

Question

I have the following ugly code:

if (msg == null || 
    msg.Content == null || 
    msg.Content.AccountMarketMessage == null || 
    msg.Content.AccountMarke         


        

Answer 1

One of the proposals in C# 6 would be to add a new Null Propogation operator.

This will (hopefully) allow you to write:

var obj = msg?.Content?.AccountMarketMessage?.Account?.sObject;
if (obj == null) return;

Unfortunately, there is nothing in the language at this point that handles this.