Object equality behaves different in .NET

Question

I have these statements and their\' results are near them.

string a = \"abc\";
string b = \"abc\";

Console.Writeline(a == b); //true

object x = a;
object y         


        

Answer 1

As seen on C# FAQ on MSDN - the compiler cannot use the overloaded method and falls back to comparing the references.

The bigger question is why it succeeds in the first object comparison. My best guess is that succeeds because a and b are both given the same reference. For c and d, you are forcing different references.