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

If you want to make sure the operators of your custom type are called you can do so via reflection. Just get the type using your generic parameter and retrieve the MethodInfo for the desired operator (e.g. op_Equality, op_Inequality, op_LessThan...).

var methodInfo = typeof (T).GetMethod("op_Equality", 
                             BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public);    

Then execute the operator using the MethodInfo's Invoke method and pass in the objects as the parameters.

var result = (bool) methodInfo.Invoke(null, new object[] { object1, object2});

This will invoke your overloaded operator and not the one defined by the constraints applied on the generic parameter. Might not be practical, but could come in handy for unit testing your operators when using a generic base class that contains a couple of tests.