Structures and Common Language Specification
The Common Language Specification has established specific rules for structures. If you want your structure to be CLS-compliant, you need to overload the equality and inequality operators and redefine the behavior of the Equals and GetHashCode methods inherited from Object. Listing 11.1 shows an example of a CLS-Compliant structure.
Listing 11.1 Building a CLS-Compliant Structure
If you are not already familiar with overriding, you can read the next chapter and then take a look back at the preceding code.
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