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

When you say string1 == string2, the comparison uses the string type's overloaded == operator, which compares the strings' values.

When you say object1 == object2, even though they're strings in this case, they won't qualify as strings for the purposes of finding an operator. So the comparison uses the default == operator, which compares the references for equality. Which means, if the two objects aren't the exact same object, it will return false.