Why does .NET foreach loop throw NullRefException when collection is null?

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Well, the short answer is “because that’s the way the compiler designers designed it.” Realistically, though, your collection object is null, so there’s no way for the compiler to get the enumerator to loop through the collection.

If you really need to do something like this, try the null coalescing operator:

int[] array = null;

foreach (int i in array ?? Enumerable.Empty<int>())
{
   System.Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}", i));
}

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