Shorthand for nested null checking C#

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Published on 2010-05-14T02:07:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 2:14 UTC
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As far as I know there is not a significantly more elegant way to write the following....

string src;
if((ParentContent!= null)
    &&(ParentContent.Image("thumbnail") != null)
    &&(ParentContent.Image("thumbnail").Property("src") != null))
    src = ParentContent.Image("thumbnail").Property("src").Value

Do you think there should be a C# language feature to make this shorter?
And if so, what should it look like?
for example, something like extending the ?? operator

string src = ParentContent??.Image("thumbnail")??.Property("width")??.Value;

Apologies for the rather contrived example, and my over-simplified solution.

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