C# - Equals

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			<Title>Equals</Title>
			<Author>Klaus Ruttkowski</Author>
			<Description>Compares the object (class) "this" to another object (class).</Description>
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#region Equals
// Calls
// this.Equals(ComparisonObject);
//
public bool Equals<T>(T value)
{
	int file1byte;
         int file2byte;

         MemoryStream memoryStreamX = new MemoryStream();
         MemoryStream memoryStreamY = new MemoryStream();

         var settings = new System.Xml.XmlWriterSettings { Encoding = Encoding.UTF8, CheckCharacters = false, NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.None, };
         using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(memoryStreamX, settings))
         {

         	XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

                	serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, this);
         }
         using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(memoryStreamY, settings))
         {

         	XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

                	serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, value);
         }
         // Check the file sizes. If they are not the same, the files 
         // are not the same.
         if (memoryStreamX.Length != memoryStreamY.Length)
         {
         	// Return false to indicate files are different
                	return false;
         }

         // Read and compare a byte from each file until either a
         // non-matching set of bytes is found or until the end of
         // file1 is reached.
         do
         {
         	// Read one byte from each file.
         	file1byte = memoryStreamX.ReadByte();
                	file2byte = memoryStreamY.ReadByte();
         }
         while ((file1byte == file2byte) && (file1byte != -1));

         // Return the success of the comparison. "file1byte" is 
         // equal to "file2byte" at this point only if the files are 
         // the same.
         return ((file1byte - file2byte) == 0);
}
#endregion
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