That worked, thanks a lot. Good to see these forums still rock.
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From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo Mouat
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:41 PM
To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] coding against missing xml
nodes/attributes
string myAttribute = null;
XmlAttribute someAttribute = configNode.Attributes["someAttribute"];
if (someAttribute != null)
myAttribute = someAttribute.Value;
Hope this helps,
//p
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Smotrisky, Alex
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> I've got an object called configNode of type
> System.Configuration.ConfigXmlElement.
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> To read data from a config file I have code such as this:
>
> string myAttribute = configNode.Attributes["someAttribute"].Value;
>
> If the attribute is missing or incorrectly named then I get a
> System.NullReferenceException.
>
> Is there a way to check for attribute existence and such? Using try
> catch for this seems more like a last resort then the right way to
write
> the code.
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Alex Smotritsky
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> Thanks,
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> Alex Smotritsky
>
> 212-698-0394
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