From e717003d209a6c94274a066d749de6fa2104824d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: valentincpopa <38735469+valentincpopa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:42:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix left outer join - null reference exception issue

fixes #46938
---
 .../snippets/standard-query-operators/LeftOuterJoins.cs         | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/csharp/linq/standard-query-operators/snippets/standard-query-operators/LeftOuterJoins.cs b/docs/csharp/linq/standard-query-operators/snippets/standard-query-operators/LeftOuterJoins.cs
index fb974223e08da..7b7983f1a87c1 100644
--- a/docs/csharp/linq/standard-query-operators/snippets/standard-query-operators/LeftOuterJoins.cs
+++ b/docs/csharp/linq/standard-query-operators/snippets/standard-query-operators/LeftOuterJoins.cs
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ private static void LeftOuterJoinMethodSyntax()
                 {
                     student.student.FirstName,
                     student.student.LastName,
-                    Department = department.Name
+                    Department = department?.Name ?? string.Empty
                 });
 
         foreach (var v in query)