Find the bugWhy do I get a Null Reference Exception?
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Originally posted at 4/12/2011

Can you spot the NRE hiding in the code?

if (parentObject!= null)
{
    lock (parentObject)
    {
        if (parentObject != null)
        {
            properties = properties.Clone();
            parentObject[parentKey] = this;
            parentObject = null;
        }
    }
}
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