Doing the Dishes

Just a quick tip from my last post…

Notice how I didn’t check for nulls in the code sample:

@model DateTime?
@string.Format("{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", Model)

You’d think it would be necessary to do something like so instead:

@model DateTime?
@(Model.HasValue ? Model.Value.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") : "")

However, String.Format in the .NET framework will just return an empty string when formatting null values. I thought this was handy, and it seems to pop up in a surprising number of cases.