Doing Nothing in .NET

Dealing with Null values (nothing in VB.NET) is a common problem for programmers of any stripe. Null dates stored in the database seem to be a common issue developers experience when they start dealing with null values. Null values in the database for a value type poses a problem in the application. The .NET framework provides Nullable Types, a Coalesce operator in C# and If in VB.NET that can help the situation.