String Extension to use instead of String.IsNullOrEmpty

Everyday while writing C# code until C# 6.0 comes I have to write code like this many times.

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var firstName =""; if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(firstName)){   "firstname is null or empty".Dump(); }

So one might ask what is wrong with this code. Nothing but it is not quite intuitive and readable. When you read, it doesn’t sound appropriate. I think that if(firstName.IsNullOrEmpty()) reads better and one doesn’t have to think of calling a static function.

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public static class StringExtension { public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string value) {     return String.IsNullOrEmpty(value); } public static bool IsNullOrWhitespace(this string value) {    return String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value); } }

This allows us following.

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if(firstName.IsNullOrEmpty()) {       "This reads much better.".Dump(); }