String.Equals() not working as intended

Question

I am using LINQ to search through one of my Entity Framework tables and find a \"group\" based on the name. The name is a string and appears to be Unicode (says it is in the

Answer 1

Try name.Equals(gr.Name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

If it works then the problem could be with gr.Name.

--- Edit ---

I'm guessing that gr.Name is not of type System.string. (since String.Equals gives you an error ==> from the previous post)

give this a shot

(gr.Name as string).Equals(name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

or

String.Equals((gr.Name as string), name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)