If (Array.Length == 0)

You can absolutely check an empty array's length. However, if you try to do that on a null reference you'll get an exception. I suspect that's what you're running into. You can cope with both though:

if (array == null || array.Length == 0)

If that isn't the cause, please give a short but complete program demonstrating the problem. If that was the cause, it's worth taking a moment to make sure you understand null references vs "empty" collections/strings/whatever.

Yeah, for safety I would probably do:

if(array == null || array.Length == 0)

You can use

if (array == null || array.Length == 0)

OR

if (!(array != null && array.Length != 0))

NOTE!!!!! To insure that c# will implement the short circuit correctly; you have to compare that the object with NULL before you go to the children compare of the object.

C# 7.0 and above

if(!(array?.Length != 0))