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

The == operator compares references (the memory addresses) while .Equals compares the actual object values. In the case of string, you get lucky and two identical strings can refer to the same address frequently. One of the joys of managed languages.