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Does == use the Equals method?

Does != use the Equals method?

Apr 27th, 2002 19:38
Nathan Wallace,

Short answer - no.
Long answer:
Equals() is an overridable method for comparing whether two objects 
are equivalent. 
The rules for != and == are a little complex:
- if the two objects are value objects (like ints), then == is an 
equality test
- if the two objects are strings, then == is a (string value) equality 
test 
eg. the following code returns true
  string one = "test";
  string two = "test";
  one == two
- for any other kind of object, == is an identity test (ie. the 
objects being compared have the same object identifier).
!= is just the negation of ==.