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I am fairly new to C#, and I come from a C++ background. I have defined a struct, and the (Microsoft) compiler keeps popping up the error CA1815 "'GenericSendRequest' should override Equals" I read a bit around and saw that C# structs derive from ValueType which impleents a generic Equals using reflection. This confused me more: Why does the compiler create an error instead of a warning if its just a performance issue? Why does it define that generic Equals in the first place if it's not going to let you use it? So how can I tell the compiler that "I don't care"? Something similar with just declaring assignment operator in a C++ class without providing definition to acknowledge that I know what I am doing. So far my solution has been to include: public static bool operator ==(GenericSendRequest lhs, GenericSendRequest rhs) { return lhs.Equals(rhs); } public static bool operator !=(GenericSendRequest lhs, GenericSendRequest rhs) { return !lhs.Equals(rhs); } public override bool Equals(object obj) { return base.Equals(obj); } //Yes, it also makes me override GetHashCode since I'm overriding Equals. public override int GetHashCode() { return base.GetHashCode(); } in my struct, which is just awful. Edit: This is the struct definition: public struct GenericSendRequest { public LiveUser Sender; public LiveUser[] Receivers; public Message Msg; public ServiceHttpRequest HttpRequest; } Its usage is just multiple return values from a function: public static GenericSendRequest CreateGenericSendRequest(...);

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