V3115. It is not recommended to throw exceptions from 'Equals(object obj)' method.

The analyzer detected that overridden method 'Equals(object obj)' might throw an exception.

Consider the following example:

public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
  return obj.GetType() == this.GetType();
}

If the 'obj' argument is null, a 'NullReferenceException' will be thrown. The programmer must have forgotten about this scenario when implementing the method. Use a null check to make this code work properly:

public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
  if (obj == null)
    return false;

  return obj.GetType() == this.GetType();
}

Another poor practice when implementing the 'Equals(object obj)' method is to explicitly throw an exception from it. For example:

public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
    if (obj == null)
        throw new InvalidOperationException("Invalid argument.");

    return obj == this;
}

This method is very likely to be called in such a block of code where exception throwing and handling are not expected.

If one of the objects does not meet the conditions, return 'false':

public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
    if (obj == null)
        return false;

    return obj == this;
}

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