exception thrown if user property retrieved

Question

I'm retrieving different custom and default user properties from the my sites profile in a webpart.

The Problem is, if i'm trying to retrieve profile information which hasn't been set yet the webpart throws a System.NullReferenceException.

How can i check if the property is set to work around that problem?

Solution

if (properties["MyProperty"] != null) { ... ?

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