Checking for nulls in ASP.NET MVC Controllers

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Published on 2010-06-01T22:11:26Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 22:13 UTC
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What is the proper (in your opinion) to check for nulls in an MVC controller. For instance, if you have an edit controller that fetches a record from the db based on an id, what do you do if that record is not found? I found this article, but I'm not sure I like that method. Do you just check for it with an if statement and redirect to a 404 page? What solution do you use?

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