Is this a proper way to check a viewstate of type int?

Question

In page load I'm saving a query string int value in a viewstate. Then I save it to my DB. Here is the code I use to retrieve viewstate value and validating it:

protected int CurrentCom
{
    get 
    {
        if (ViewState["CurrentCom"] == null)
            return 0;
        else
        {
            int temp;
            if (int.TryParse(ViewState["CurrentCom"].ToString(), out temp))
                return temp;
            else return 0;
        }

    }
    set { ViewState["CurrentCom"] = value; }
}

Is there a better way to make this shorter?

Answer 1

I usually do like this:

return (int)(ViewState["CurrentCom"] ?? 0);

Answer 2

I'm not too familiar with C#, but the else branch looks unnecessary, since if ViewState["CurrentCom"] == null is true the method returns with 0.

if (ViewState["CurrentCom"] == null) {
    return 0;
}
int currentCom;
if (int.TryParse(ViewState["CurrentCom"].ToString(), out currentCom)) {
    return currentCom;
}
return 0;