I am using MVC with LINQ-to-SQL class.

as foreign key can be null, i have one record having f.k. null and others are having values.

now i am displaying it in view by Index view.

In index view i am resolving f.k. by writing code like

```
<%= Html.Encode(item.UserModified.UserName) %>

```

Now i have a problem in view that "object reference is not set".

And this is because of we are having null value in one of the f.k. field!

so can i write code in view to check whether Associated object pointing to null or nothing?