Are string.Equals() and == operator really same? [duplicate]

Answer 1

The Header property of the TreeViewItem is statically typed to be of type object.

Therefore the == yields false. You can reproduce this with the following simple snippet:

object s1 = "Hallo";

// don't use a string literal to avoid interning
string s2 = new string(new char[] { 'H', 'a', 'l', 'l', 'o' });

bool equals = s1 == s2;         // equals is false
equals = string.Equals(s1, s2); // equals is true