Overriding C# Conditional statements problem

Question

I was writing some code today and something was not working as I expected.

Why does the following code execute even though the condition should have evaluated to false?

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I have tried putting braces around the two conditions, and switching their position, but the EndedUsingApplication even still executes.

EDIT:

It has nothing to do with the || or && operators. Look at this...

Nobody can learn from my mistake unless I post the culprit code, so here it is.

  public static bool operator ==(ActiveApplication a, ActiveApplication b)
     {
     if ((object)a == null || (object)b == null)
        return false;
     return a.process_name == b.process_name && a.window_title == b.window_title;
     }

  public static bool operator !=(ActiveApplication a, ActiveApplication b)
     {
     return a == b ? false : true;
     }

And here is the working code ...

  public static bool operator ==(ActiveApplication a, ActiveApplication b)
     {
     // Casting to object class prevents this comparison operator being executed
     // again and causing an infinite loop (which I think .NET detects and stops
     // but it would still be a huge hole in the logic.
     if ((object)a == null && (object)b == null)
        return true;
     if ((object)a == null ^ (object)b == null)
        return false;
     return a.process_name == b.process_name && a.window_title == b.window_title;
     }

  public static bool operator !=(ActiveApplication a, ActiveApplication b)
     {
     return a == b ? false : true;
     }

The problem appeared to be when the != operator received two null values.

Answer 1

Have you overloaded !=?

Answer 2

Not sure why. But are you sure the running application is compiled using the code you are stepping through. I have seen this sort of thing when the code is different to what is actually being executed.