C# 9.0 Value-based Equality

Object class comes with two static methods, Equals and ReferenceEquals. record overrides this to check the equality of values one by one recursively. That means even if for two different record objects having same set of properties and the values will be equal.

public record Employee
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

For two different objects with different property values,

//A developer
var developer = new Employee() { FirstName = "Wriju", LastName = "Ghosh" };
//an intern
var juniordev = developer with { FirstName = "Wrishika" };

Console.WriteLine("First Name is different");
Console.WriteLine("=======================");
Console.WriteLine("Reference Equal : {0}",ReferenceEquals(developer, juniordev)); //False
Console.WriteLine("Equals : {0}",Equals(developer, juniordev)); //False

If we create one more record with same property value,

//Junior dev gets a promotion and name changed and matches with the senior dev
var seniordev = juniordev with { FirstName = "Wriju" };
Console.WriteLine("First Name is same");
Console.WriteLine("=======================");
Console.WriteLine("Reference Equal : {0}", ReferenceEquals(developer, seniordev)); //False
Console.WriteLine("Equals : {0}", Equals(developer, seniordev)); //True