How to determine if two generic type values are equal?

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Update* I am so sorry... my sample code contained an error which resulted in a lot of answers I didn\'t understand. In stead of

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Answer 1

You can either implement IEquatable, or implement a comparer class that implements IEqualityComparer.

Make sure that value you check for equality is immutable and is set only at initialization of the class.

Another consideration would be to implement IComparer, when you implement this one, you don't have to worry about the hash-code, and thus, can be implemented for mutable types/fields as well.

Once you'll properly implement IEquatable in your class, your questions will be solved.

Update: Calling return EqualityComparer.Default.Equals(Value, value); would basically return same result since there is no IEqualityComparer implemented...