Why does == not work while comparing two object type variables boxed with same int value

Question

While trying to implement a simple singly linked list in C#, I noticed that == does not work while comparing two object type variables boxed with an int value b

Answer 1

The operator == is like an overloaded static function selected based on the compile time types. In your case the type of the values is Object, for which the == operator implements reference equality.

On the other hand .Equals is virtual and overridden, so it will do the comparison based on the actual types.