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NullReferenceException (NRE) is a .NET exception that occurs when a developer tries to access a null reference.
In C#, reference type variables store references to objects. A reference may have a value of null: in this case, it does not point to any object in memory. The default value for reference types is null.
Let's consider a simple synthetic example:
string str = null;
var len = str.Length;
....The str variable takes the null value. This causes NullReferenceException to be thrown when a programmer attempts to access the Length property.
Errors are often not so obvious. Let's take a look at a code fragment from an open-source project:
public Palette GlobalPalette
{
get {....}
set
{
SetTagValue("GlobalPalette", (value != null) ? null : value.Data);
}
}Developers made a mistake when using the ternary operator — they mixed up operands. The value variable is checked for null. If value is null, an attempt will be made to access the Data property. This will result in throwing a NullReferenceException because value stores a null reference.
Calling the SetTagValue method this way is correct:
SetTagValue("GlobalPalette", (value != null) ? value.Data : null);To learn more about the reasons for NullReferenceException, as well as how to fix exceptions and how to avoid them, see the article: "NullReferenceException in C#. What is it and how to fix it?"
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