Question

I am at a loss to understand why this Test would fail with Message “Assert.AreEqual failed. Expected:<2>. Actual:<1>.”

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test()
        {
            char[] a1 = "abc".ToCharArray();
            char[] a2 = {'a', 'b', 'c', ' ', ' '};

            Assert.AreEqual(2, a2.Except(a1).Count());
        }

but the following would pass:

        [TestMethod]
        public void Test()
        {
            char[] a1 = "abc".ToCharArray();
            char[] a2 = {'a', 'b', 'c', ' ', 'd', ' '};

            Assert.AreEqual(2, a2.Except(a1).Count());
        }

Answer 1

because except finds difference of two sequences

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/system.linq.enumerable.except.aspx

maybe you need something like this

var c=a2.Where(a=>a1.Contains(a)==false).Count();