CollectionAssert.AreEqual Method (ICollection, ICollection)

Verifies that two specified collections are equal. The assertion fails if the collections are not equal.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Sub AreEqual ( _
    expected As ICollection, _
    actual As ICollection _
)

public static void AreEqual(
    ICollection expected,
    ICollection actual
)

public:
static void AreEqual(
    ICollection^ expected, 
    ICollection^ actual
)

static member AreEqual : 
        expected:ICollection * 
        actual:ICollection -> unit

public static function AreEqual(
    expected : ICollection, 
    actual : ICollection
)

Parameters

• expected
  Type: ICollection

  The first collection to compare. This is the collection the unit test expects.

• actual
  Type: ICollection

  The second collection to compare. This is the collection the unit test produced.

Exceptions

Remarks

Two collections are equal if they have the same elements in the same order and quantity. Elements are equal if their values are equal, not if they refer to the same object. The values of elements are compared using Equals by default.

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

CollectionAssert Class

AreEqual Overload

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting Namespace

Other Resources

Using the Assert Classes