C# / Visual Studio - Object is null unless I have a Breakpoint

Question

I'm specifically using the Google Contacts API at the moment, but this could be true of other scinarios as well.

I have the following code:

Contact newContact = new Contact();

When I let the code run without any breakpoints, I get a NullReferenceException on all of the properties of this object. However, if I put a breakpoint just after this line, I can see all of the properties have been initialises and the rest of my code executes fine.

Any idea's would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Maybe it takes a while to initialize Contact object (ie download data from internet). If it is done asynchronous then when you set a breakpoint you give program a time to do it.