Tips #1 - Record types and equality checks

In C# we have a really neat function to check record types and also to check the eqaulity of them. But let's have a look what is a record type first.

It is available from C# 10 and it adds a record struct to be able to define records as value types.

Here you can see a small exmaple of it.

var itsMePeter  = new Person("Peter","Magyar");
var itsStillMePeter = new Person("Peter","Magyar");


//True
Console.WriteLine(itsMePeter.Equals(itsStillMePeter));
//True
Console.WriteLine(itsMePeter == itsStillMePeter);

public record Person(
  string FirstName, 
  string LastName
  );

Related link(s):

• Records MSDN