Question

Hello I have the following question, is it possible to make an inline if statement?

var contact= new XElement("Contact",
                                                new XAttribute("id", id.ToString()),
                                                new XElement("ContactData",
                                                             new XElement("Prefix", person.Prefix),
                                                             new XElement("FirstName", person.FirstName)
                                                );

Because sometimes person.x could be null and its bringing me errors.

thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

You could try something like this

var contacts = new XElement("Contact",
        new XAttribute("id", id.ToString()),
        new XElement("ContactData",
            new XElement("Prefix", person.Prefix == null ? "" : person.Prefix),
            new XElement("FirstName", person.FirstName == null ? "" : person.FirstName));

The syntax is (condition ? truevalue : falsevalue)