Can't operator == be applied to generic types in C#?

Question

According to the documentation of the == operator in MSDN,

For predefined value types, the equality operator (==) returns true if th

Answer 1

Well in my case I wanted to unit-test the equality operator. I needed call the code under the equality operators without explicitly setting the generic type. Advises for EqualityComparer were not helpful as EqualityComparer called Equals method but not the equality operator.

Here is how I've got this working with generic types by building a LINQ. It calls the right code for == and != operators:

/// 

/// Gets the result of "a == b"
/// 
public bool GetEqualityOperatorResult(T a, T b)
{
    // declare the parameters
    var paramA = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), nameof(a));
    var paramB = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), nameof(b));
    // get equality expression for the parameters
    var body = Expression.Equal(paramA, paramB);
    // compile it
    var invokeEqualityOperator = Expression.Lambda>(body, paramA, paramB).Compile();
    // call it
    return invokeEqualityOperator(a, b);
}

/// 

/// Gets the result of "a =! b"
/// 
public bool GetInequalityOperatorResult(T a, T b)
{
    // declare the parameters
    var paramA = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), nameof(a));
    var paramB = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), nameof(b));
    // get equality expression for the parameters
    var body = Expression.NotEqual(paramA, paramB);
    // compile it
    var invokeInequalityOperator = Expression.Lambda>(body, paramA, paramB).Compile();
    // call it
    return invokeInequalityOperator(a, b);
}