.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library

Type Summary

						public abstract class ValueType
{
  // Constructors
     protected ValueType ();

  // Methods
     public override bool Equals (object obj);
     public override int GetHashCode ();
  CF
						public override string ToString ();
}

BA Notice we override Equals, GetHashCode, and ToString from System.Object in this class. We did this because the implementations inherited from Object rely on the object's referential identity, so they make no sense for value types. We can also provide slightly more efficient implementations of those methods.