In this course, you’ll learn how to use equality and comparisons correctly in your C# code: both how they work out of the box, and how to implement equality and comparisons for your own types. The course also covers working with inheritance, string comparisons, writing custom comparers and equality comparers, hash codes, and structural comparisons.
Author Name: Simon Robinson
Author Description:
Simon Robinson first cut his developer teeth in the early 1980s writing a scheduling system in BBC Basic(!) for his local college. Since then, his programming career has spanned industries ranging from academic research to telecoms to finance, and many computer languages such as C++, C# and Python, as well as writing front-end and back-end code for Windows and Web. He believes knowledge is to be shared, and has written or co-written more than a dozen books for professional programmers, includin… more

Table of Contents

• Why Is Equality So Hard?
  28mins
• Equality in .NET
  27mins
• The C# Equality Operator
  31mins
• Implementing Equality for Value Types
  16mins
• Implementing Equality for Reference Types
  34mins
• Comparisons in .NET
  31mins
• Equality and Comparisons for Strings
  37mins
• Comparers and Equality Comparers
  42mins
• Hash Codes and Hashtables
  25mins
• Structural Equality and Comparisons
  16mins