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Question Mark (?) after session variable reference - What does that mean

I have had a code snippet comes to modify. In there i found this such syntax.

Session("LightBoxID")?.ToString()

I didn't understand what is that Question mark (?) there means. No googling helped me about any hint

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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It's the Null-Conditional Operator It's a syntactic sugar for null checking:

return str?.ToString();

will become

if (str == null)
{
    return null;
}
return str.ToString();
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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It performs a null-check on Session("LightBoxID") before attempting to call .ToString() on it.

MS Docs: Null-conditional operators ?. and ?[]

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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