Tip of the day #13 (String Equality)

When comparing two strings in a case insensitive manner, use:

myFirstString.Equals(mySecondString, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)

or, if cultural rules are to be ignored completely* then use:

myFirstString.Equals(mySecondString, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

over:

myFirstString.ToLower() == mySecondString.ToLower()

* The invariant culture is actually a non-region specific English language culture. The ordinal comparison is faster than any culture specific comparison as it uses a much simpler comparison algorithm.