New Design Guideline: Null Paramarrays

Based on some security reviews we are doing on the system in general I added this implementation note to the Design Guidelines.

Do be aware that null could be passed in for the paramarray. You should validate that that paramarray is not null before processing (see section on parameter passing for more infomration).

  static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            Sum(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); //result == 15

            Sum(null); //throws null reference exception

        }

        static int Sum(params int[] values)

        {

            int sum = 0;

            foreach (int i in values)

            {

                sum += i;

            }

            return sum;

        }