NUnit doesn't work well with Assert.AreEqual

Question

I\'m new to unit testing and NUit in particular. I\'m just typing some examples from the book which refers to Java and JUnit. But I\'m using C# instead.

The problem

Answer 1

I found it confusing that implementing the IEquatable interface, which also has an

Equals(T other)

method, posed me with the same problem as described above.

The only reason I chose to use the IEquaytable interface above overriding the Equals method was not to have to do the type check.

In the end I had to use the following code

public bool Equals(CustomTag other)
{
   return (other.Name.Trim().ToLower() == Name.Trim().ToLower());
}

public override bool Equals(object o)
{
    if (o is CustomTag)
    {
        return Equals(o as CustomTag);
    }
    return false;
}

but then I thought, why not just leave the IEquatable interface for what it is and only override the Equals method. (less code = better)