>>Hi everybody,
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>>I have a property declared as byte[]. I'm getting it from SQL Server database (varbinary(max)). I'm selecting it like this
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>>select ISNULL(DefaultPicture,'') as DefaultPicture
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>>In my C# code I need to check if the value is empty. What should I do?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>Since it's declared as byte[] which is an array,
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>bool empty = (DefaultPicture.Length == 0)
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>Had it been declared as string
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>bool empty = String.IsNullOrEmpty(DefaultPicture)
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BTW, if I would have declared it as a string (thus avoiding the null problem), how would I be able to convert it to byte array? I don't think string would have worked for the picture...