C# what does the == operator do in detail?

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Published on 2009-04-30T09:03:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 2:23 UTC
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in c# what does exactly happen in the background when you do a comparison with the "==" operator on two objects? does it just compare the addresses? or does it something like Equals() or CompareTo() ?

PS: what about the "==" operator in java? does it behave the same?

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