C#: Using as bool? instead of object something = ViewState["hi"]
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So I'm going through old code (2.0) and I came across this:
object isReviewingValue = ViewState["IsReviewing"];
if (isReviewingValue is bool)
{
return (bool)isReviewingValue;
}
My first thought was to us the "as" keyword to avoid the unneeded
(bool)isReviewingValue;
But "as" only works with non value types. No problem, I just went ahead and did this:
bool? isReviewingValue= ViewState["IsReviewing"] as bool?;
if (isReviewingValue.HasValue)
{
return isReviewingValue.Value;
}
Question is: Besides looking a bit more readable, is this in fact better?
