Csharp/C Sharp/Development Class/System Object Method

illustrates some of the System.Object class methods

<source lang="csharp"> /* Mastering Visual C# .NET by Jason Price, Mike Gunderloy Publisher: Sybex; ISBN: 0782129110

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/*

 Example7_6.cs illustrates some of the System.Object
 class methods

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using System;

// declare the Car class class Car {

 // declare the fields
 public string make;
 public string model;
 // define a constructor
 public Car(string make, string model)
 {
   this.make = make;
   this.model = model;
 }
 // define the Display() method
 public void Display()
 {
   Console.WriteLine("make = " + make);
   Console.WriteLine("model = " + model);
 }
 // define the Copy() method
 public static Car Copy(Car car)
 {
   // perform memberwise clone
   return (Car) car.MemberwiseClone();
 }

}

public class Example7_6 {

 public static void Main()
 {
   // create Car objects
   Console.WriteLine("Creating Car objects");
   Car myCar = new Car("Toyota", "MR2");
   Car myOtherCar = new Car("Porsche", "Boxter");
   Console.WriteLine("myCar details:");
   myCar.Display();
   Console.WriteLine("myOtherCar details:");
   myOtherCar.Display();
   // call some of the methods inherited from the System.Object class
   Console.WriteLine("myCar.ToString() = " + myCar.ToString());
   Console.WriteLine("myCar.GetType() = " + myCar.GetType());
   Console.WriteLine("myCar.GetHashCode() = " + myCar.GetHashCode());
   Console.WriteLine("Car.Equals(myCar, myOtherCar) = " +
     Car.Equals(myCar, myOtherCar));
   Console.WriteLine("Car.ReferenceEquals(myCar, myOtherCar) = " +
     Car.ReferenceEquals(myCar, myOtherCar));
   // set the myCar object reference equal to myOtherCar
   Console.WriteLine("Setting myCar equal to myOtherCar");
   myCar = myOtherCar;
   // check for equality
   Console.WriteLine("Car.Equals(myCar, myOtherCar) = " +
     Car.Equals(myCar, myOtherCar));
   Console.WriteLine("Car.ReferenceEquals(myCar, myOtherCar) = " +
     Car.ReferenceEquals(myCar, myOtherCar));
   // perform a memberwise clone of myCar using the Car.Copy() method
   Console.WriteLine("Performing a memberwise clone of myCar to myOldCar");
   Car myOldCar = Car.Copy(myCar);
   Console.WriteLine("myOldCar details:");
   myOldCar.Display();
 }

}

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