Equals != ==

Yep, I’ve made yet another noob mistake.

I needed to compare two enum values, on a method that was accepting objects.

public string Whatever(object currentOption, object selectedOption){ return currentOption == selectedOption ? "class='active' " : string.Empty;}

Didn’t work.

However,

public string Whatever(object currentOption, object selectedOption){ return currentOption.Equals(selectedOption) ? "class='active' " : string.Empty;}

Did work.

so, it appear that == isn’t polymorphic so it did the object.Equals method which apparently looks for reference equality, rather than the enum Equals.

And that has been yet another future-reference-post …