c#: IsNullableType helper class ?

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Published on 2010-03-08T11:32:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 11:36 UTC
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Hi there,

Can anyone help?

I have some code that is shared between 2 projects. The code points to a model which basically is a collection of properties that comes from a db.

Problem being is that some properties use nullable types in 1 model and the other it doesn't

Really the dbs should use the same but they don't ..

so for example there is a property called IsAvailble which uses "bool" in one model and the other it uses bool? (nullable type)

so in my code i do the following

 objContract.IsAvailble.Value ? "Yes" : "No"   //notice the property .VALUE as its a bool? (nullable type)

but this line will fail on model that uses a standard "bool" (not nullable) as there is no property .VALUE on types that are NOT nullable

Is there some kind of helper class that i check if the property is a nullable type and i can return .Value .. otherwise i just return the property.

Anybody have a solution for this?

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