Introduction to the compare capabilities.
The .NET Framework comes with multiple interfaces which allow for comparison of objects:
While comparing an object is something used for example to order a list, equating an object is the act
of defining if objectA is the same as objectB.
As an example, if you sort a list of people, two may be named John Doe but they're not necessarily the same person.
To make this even more complicated, an object being reference-compared may also yield different results.
The compare infrastructure in BBT.StructureTools is aiming at the comparison in a business case centered view and leaves the technical comparison of objects (aka Object.ReferenceEquals) to the framework, or leverages it if a reference comparison is desired from a business use case. Euqating is not supported and must be achieved using the aforementioned .NET Framework functionality.
As in the other operations of BBT.StructureTools the comparison works per class or interface by registering the comparison on this level per attribute and using other registrations for parent, child or otherwise related objects.