C# snippet: override Object.Equals

Lately I’ve been creating quite a few business entities with the ID of the object as the actual key to compare objects, which isn’t the default implementation. Because of that I had to override the Equals and the GetHashCode methods defined on the object class. Since copy/pasting code and editing parts of it for each new entity class isn’t the best way to develop an application, I created a small code snippet to make my life easier.

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<CodeSnippets
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2008/CodeSnippet">
    <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
        <Header>
            <Title>My .Equals() and .GetHasCode() snippet</Title>
            <Shortcut>eq</Shortcut>
        </Header>
        <Snippet>
            <!-- Add additional Snippet information here -->

            <Declarations>
                <Literal default="true" Editable="false">
                    <ID>ClassName</ID>
                    <ToolTip>Class name</ToolTip>
                    <Function>ClassName()</Function>
                    <Default>object</Default>
                </Literal>
                <Literal>
                    <ID>CompareItem</ID>
                    <ToolTip>Replace with the item on which objects are compared, mostly the ID.</ToolTip>
                    <Default>ID</Default>
                </Literal>
            </Declarations>
            <Code Language="CSharp">
                <![CDATA[/// <summary>
        /// override object.Equals(obj);
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="obj"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public override bool Equals(object obj) {
                        if (obj == null)
                            return false;

                    $ClassName$ entity = obj as $ClassName$;
                    if (entity == null)
                        return false;

                    return entity.$CompareItem$ == this.$CompareItem$;
                }

                /// <summary>
        /// override object.GetHashCode();
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public override int GetHashCode() {
                    return $CompareItem$.GetHashCode();
                }]]>
            </Code>
        </Snippet>
    </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>