.NET for Java Developers: Migrating to C#

8.7. Relational Operators

Relational operators are used mostly in the condition part of if-else and while constructs.

8.7.1. The == Operator

The equality operator (==) is a binary operator and compares the two operands on each side of the operator for equality. For value types, the == operator returns true if the value of the operands is equal and false otherwise. For reference data types, the == operator returns true if the two references refer to the same object. For string objects, the == operator returns true if the contents of the two strings are equal.

Java programmers should be careful of this feature of C#. In C#, the == operator on strings does what the equals() method of Java strings does. The == operator can be overloaded only if the ...