In my quest of minimalism I always try to find elegant solutions to common issues that I face every day.

This time, it's all about simplifying your linQ queries to a much more elegant form.

Before

Your code could look like this:

if (values != null)
{
  var result = values.Select(r => r.Value);
}
else
{
  // do stuff
}

or maybe like that:

var result = values != null
  ? values.Select(r => r.Value)
  : Enumerable.Empty<object>();

The bit

public static IEnumerable<T> EmptyIfNull<T>(this IEnumerable<T> collection)
{
  return collection ?? Enumerable.Empty<T>();
}

After

var result = values.EmptyIfNull().Select(r => r.Value);