ASP.NET & C#, Web Applicatiom

Hi,
If u have acess to the Data Layer (database), u can write a stored procedure, which does the checking, whether the record exists, and do the insert (or skip) accordingly and return, the existence in a way u prefer.
You may do that as you do it now in the code, but it may not be the "standard coding".
"is Not" is inside a string and is doing nothing other than being inside a string, in C# side. It comes into play one passed to Database server (interprets it as SQL statements)
 
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Hope it helps!
--Amit