Question

This seems like it should be really straight forward.

if I have:

object obj = *get value from somewhere*

if(obj == null){
    MessageBox.Show("NULL");
}

Even when I debug and see that obj IS null, the code never goes into the if statement.

Do you have do do something different when comparing an object to null? (because an object can be any type?)

Answer 1

Okay, the comment’s giving it away:

Ok, in doing this, I noticed that when I hover over the variable in debugging mode, the value is null, but when it ISNT working, the value is {null}… What does {null} mean?

That suggest it’s actually an array (or possibly another collection type) containing a single null reference, e.g.

object obj = new object[] { null };

The value of obj is not a null reference, hence it doesn’t go into the body of the if statement.

How you should handle this depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Do you really need obj to be statically typed as just object?