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Fix null reference exception in left outer join method syntax — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight

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The left outer join method syntax example in the LINQ documentation was throwing a `NullReferenceException` when students were assigned to non-existent departments. This occurred because the method syntax was directly accessing `department.Name` without checking for null references, unlike the query…

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