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The C# ?? null coalescing operator (and using it with LINQ)

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by Scott Guthrie
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You can use the C# ?? operator in all types of scenarios. Hopefully the LINQ to XML scenario above provides some interesting food for thought on how you can use it with any LINQ scenario (including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SharePoint, etc).

Hope this helps,

Scott

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Title: C # Linq
Name: Faheem
Date: 5/21/2009 7:43:20 AM
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hi
say i have 300 xml elements and 250 may or may not have their values in xml file then it will be very tedious for me to write all element name and using ? style as u mention . IS there any method which is universal and easy to use.

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Name: raja
Date: 10/5/2007 3:36:50 AM
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