Re: Explanation of object equality.

Damien... Be careful. As Jon has pointed out in the past, the
overloaded
string equality operator only works on reference variables of Type
string.

object a= "Hello";
object b= "Hello";
bool isSameReference= (a == b); // test if a and b contain references to
the
same object or to no object (are both null)
bool isSameContent= ((string)a == (string)b); // test if string
referenced by a
and string referenced b have the same content/value or a and b are both
null

Session["KEY"]="VALUE"; // Error! The left hand operand is of type
object!
This is a reference based comparison. Do this:
(String)Session["KEY"]="VALUE"; // content equivalence

Regards,
Jeff

// How about with strings?
object o3 = "hello";
object o4 = "hello";
Console.WriteLine(o3 == o4); // returns true<<


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