title: UIImageView returning nil in a custom UICollectionViewCell
body: <p>I asked a similar question last week but I think I have it narrowed down to more specifically what is going wrong. The custom cell is being loaded and looks to be called correctly when I use the <code>collectionView.dequeReusableCellWithIdentifier("MenuCell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as MenuCollectionViewCell</code> "MenuCell" is the reuse identifier for my custom cell and MenuCollectionViewCell is the swift file that holds the custom code. From debugging the code I have determined that the UIImageView is not being loaded. I did a check and that is what I came up with. Why the ImageView is not being loaded and is only appearing as nil I do not know. I will post the code for the file where it is being loaded and the custom cell code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>class MenuViewController: UIViewController, UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate
  {
      // Not sure if I really need this
      @IBOutlet var menuCollectionView: MenuCollectionView!
  
      override func viewDidLoad()
      {
          super.viewDidLoad()
          // Do any additional setup after loading the view
          view.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(contentsOfFile: "behind_alert_view.png"))
          // This was the fix here
          self.menuCollectionView.delegate = self
          self.menuCollectionView.dataSource = self
  
      }
  
      // Variables
      var menuImagesArray = ["MyProfileIcon.png"]
  
      // Data Source Protocol
     func numberOfSectionsInCollectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView) -&gt; Int
      {
          return 1
      }
  
      func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -&gt; Int
      {
          return menuImagesArray.count
      }
  
      func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -&gt; UICollectionViewCell
      {
          var menuCell: MenuCollectionViewCell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier("MenuCell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as MenuCollectionViewCell
  
          var image: UIImage!
  
          if ((menuCell.imageView) != nil)
          {
              image = UIImage(named: menuImagesArray[indexPath.row])
          }
  
          menuCell.imageView.image = image
  
  
  
          return menuCell
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is the custom cell file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class MenuCollectionViewCell: UICollectionViewCell
  {
      @IBOutlet var imageView: UIImageView!
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error that I am receiving is a termination due to unwrapping a nil value for an optional. The problem is the UIImageView for sure, any help figuring this out would be great!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT/SOLVED</p>
  
  <p>The problem was the connection to the UICollectionView. I had the reference to it but I had not used it properly. I was trying to set the dataSource and delegate in the storyboard and that seemed to be the problem for me. When I moved over to the code and made the reference and referenced it in the way I did with those two calls it instantly fixed it. I hope this can help someone else if they run into the same problem! Now on to customizing it since it pops up!</p>