Question

I would like to compare the contents of a couple of collections in my Equals method. I have a Dictionary and an IList. Is there a built-in method to do this?

Edited: I want to compare two Dictionaries and two ILists, so I think what equality means is clear – if the two dictionaries contain the same keys mapped to the same values, then they’re equal.

Answer 1

Enumerable.SequenceEqual

Determines whether two sequences are equal by comparing their elements by using a specified IEqualityComparer(T).

You can’t directly compare the list & the dictionary, but you could compare the list of values from the Dictionary with the list