I recently came across this while going through someone else's code
var name = Product.Buyer?.FirstName + " " + Product.Buyer?.LastName;
What does this(?.)mean in c#
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(I've tried to find a duplicate, but failed. Not so easy to search for, although I'm sure there *are* very similar questions.) – Jon Skeet Sep 15 '16 at 06:01
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2Jon Skeet Commented on my question :) . Wow – Anshuman Jasrotia Sep 15 '16 at 06:09
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The operator ?. is called Null-conditional Operators, which is introduced in C# 6.0.
Used to test for null before performing member access (?.) or index (?[) operation. These operators help you write less code to handle null checks, especially for descending into data structures.
see the documentation and an example here
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