C# object is not null but (myObject != null) still return false

Question

I need to do a comparaison between an object and NULL. When the object is not NULL I fill it with some data.

Here is the code :

 if (region != null)
 {
  ....
 }

This is working but when looping and looping sometime the region object is NOT null (I can see data inside it in debug mode). In step-by-step when debugging, it doesn't go inside the IF statement... When I do a Quick Watch with these following expression : I see the (region == null) return false, AND (region != null) return false too... why and how?

Update

Someone point out that the object was == and != overloaded:

    public static bool operator ==(Region r1, Region r2)
    {
        if (object.ReferenceEquals(r1, null))
        {
            return false;
        }
        if (object.ReferenceEquals(r2, null))
        {
            return false;
        }

        return (r1.Cmr.CompareTo(r2.Cmr) == 0 && r1.Id == r2.Id);
    }


    public static bool operator !=(Region r1, Region r2)
    {
        if (object.ReferenceEquals(r1, null))
        {
            return false;
        }
        if (object.ReferenceEquals(r2, null))
        {
            return false;
        }
        return (r1.Cmr.CompareTo(r2.Cmr) != 0 || r1.Id != r2.Id);
    }

Answer 1

Is the == and/or != operator overloaded for the region object's class?

Now that you've posted the code for the overloads:

The overloads should probably look like the following (code taken from postings made by Jon Skeet and Philip Rieck):

public static bool operator ==(Region r1, Region r2)
{
    if (object.ReferenceEquals( r1, r2)) {
        // handles if both are null as well as object identity
        return true;
    }

    if ((object)r1 == null || (object)r2 == null)
    {
       return false;
    }        

    return (r1.Cmr.CompareTo(r2.Cmr) == 0 && r1.Id == r2.Id);
}

public static bool operator !=(Region r1, Region r2)
{
    return !(r1 == r2);
}