Hi

I'd like the MVCToolkit to be tolerant of nulls. I've been using ?? "" to avoid the null errors.

<%= Html.TextBox( "Name", ViewData.Name ?? "" ) %> 

As an aside, I'm really excited about extension methods, cos you can call them on null objects!!!!!!

public static string MyToString(this object obj)
{
    return obj == null ? String.Empty : obj.ToString();
}

// then you can do this;

object a = null;

a.MyToString(); // This looks like you'll get a NullReferenceException

But you don't! No errors, It returns the empty string if a is null. Something like this should be baked into the framework if you ask me.
 

 +1, NRE's in views are a pain.

 i'm not checking the null value, i just use

 <%= Html.TextBox( "Name" ) %>

and it works for me

tgmdbm: I wrote an article about this: http://www.augi.cz/programovani/extension-methods-in-c-30-null-dereferencing/