C# equivalent of the IsNull() function in SQL Server

It's called the null coalescing (??) operator:

myNewValue = myValue ?? new MyValue();

Sadly, there's no equivalent to the null coalescing operator that works with DBNull; for that, you need to use the ternary operator:

newValue = (oldValue is DBNull) ? null : oldValue;

public static T isNull<T>(this T v1, T defaultValue)
{
    return v1 == null ? defaultValue : v1;
}

myValue.isNull(new MyValue())