IsNothing alternative ?

[tinman]

Hi....

There appears to be another way of checking if an object IsNothing in
..NET.....was wondering if this approach is better than the classic VB6 way
of checking Is Nothing ?

Example
******

Public Function IsNothing(ByVal ExternalObject As Object) As Boolean
Try
Return (ExternalObject.Equals(New System.Object))
Catch ex As NullReferenceException
Return True
End Try
End Function

Private Sub Testing()
Dim objX as ClassX
Debug.WriteLine IsNothing(objX) 'Returns True
objX = New ClassX
Debug.WriteLine IsNothing(objX) 'Returns False
objX = Nothing
Debug.WriteLine IsNothing(objX) 'Returns True
End Sub

 

[Armin Zingler]

Hi....

There appears to be another way of checking if an object IsNothing
in .NET.....was wondering if this approach is better than the
classic VB6 way of checking Is Nothing ?

The "classic" VB6 way is the same as in VB.Net:

if var Is Nothing then



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[Daniel Pratt]

Hi tinman,

Use "Is Nothing". The "Is Nothing" construct checks the value of the
reference directly, which is very fast. In your example, you are either
doing an unnecessary function call, or causing an exception, which is much
worse performance-wise.

Regards,
Daniel

 

[David Browne]

Hi....

There appears to be another way of checking if an object IsNothing in
.NET.....was wondering if this approach is better than the classic VB6 way
of checking Is Nothing ?

Example
******

Public Function IsNothing(ByVal ExternalObject As Object) As Boolean
Try
Return (ExternalObject.Equals(New System.Object))
Catch ex As NullReferenceException
Return True
End Try
End Function

No that's no good. Exceptions are relatively expensive to catch, and so you
don't want to use exceptions to trap common conditions like this.

Simple object reference equality will do the trick here.

if ExternalObject is nothing ...


David

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

There appears to be another way of checking if an object IsNothing in
.NET.....was wondering if this approach is better than the classic VB6 way
of checking Is Nothing ?

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If ... Is Nothing Then
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End If
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