VB.NET: Use a Ternary Operator to check variable before assignment

It's a nice thing to be able to quickly check a value before assigning it to a variable, perhaps in a situation where you want to avoid a NullReferenceException.

If you want to do this, you can use a Ternary Operator which allows you to do the whole thing on one line:

Dim s As String
s = If(Session("mySessionVar") Is Nothing, String.Empty, Session("mySessionVar").ToString)

For more detail, refer to this blog post.