Why cast null before checking if object is equal to null?
- by jacerhea
I was looking through the "Domain Oriented N-Layered .NET 4.0 Sample App" project and ran across some code that I do not understand. In this project they often use syntax like the following to check arguments for null:
public GenericRepository(IQueryableContext context,ITraceManager traceManager)
{
if (context == (IQueryableContext)null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("context", Resources.Messages.exception_ContainerCannotBeNull);
Why would you cast null to the type of the object you are checking for null?
