Overloading == operator for class containing only string attributes

Question

What would be the best (most elegant or performing) way of overloading the equality operator on a class containing only string attributes?

Example:

class MagicClass
{
    public string FirstAttribute { get; set; }
    public string SecondAttribute { get; set; }
    public string ThirdAttribute { get; set; }
    public string FourthAttribute { get; set; }
    public string FifthAttribute { get; set; }
}

I know how to overload the operator itself, however, I am wondering about the following points:

1. Is there a way to elegantly compare such two objects (e.g. without having to write an if statement containing mutual comparisons of all the attributes
2. What would be a good implementation of the GetHashCode() method in such case

Answer 1

How about something like this, Just create array of all properties and a loop.

internal class MagicClass
{
    public string FirstAttribute { get; set; }
    public string SecondAttribute { get; set; }
    public string ThirdAttribute { get; set; }
    public string FourthAttribute { get; set; }
    public string FifthAttribute { get; set; }

    private string[] AllProperties//Array of all properties
    {
        get
        {
            return new[]
            {
                FirstAttribute,
                SecondAttribute,
                ThirdAttribute,
                FourthAttribute,
                FifthAttribute
            };
        }
    }

    protected bool Equals(MagicClass other)
    {
        var thisProps = this.AllProperties;
        var otherProps = other.AllProperties;

        return thisProps.SequenceEqual(otherProps);
    }

    public override bool Equals(object obj)
    {
        if (ReferenceEquals(null, obj)) return false;
        if (ReferenceEquals(this, obj)) return true;
        if (obj.GetType() != this.GetType()) return false;
        return Equals((MagicClass) obj);
    }

    public override int GetHashCode()
    {
        unchecked
        {
            var thisProps = this.AllProperties;
            int hashCode = 0;
            foreach (var prop in thisProps)
            {
                hashCode = (hashCode * 397) ^ (prop != null ? prop.GetHashCode() : 0);
            }
            return hashCode;
        }
    }
}

Then you can call Equals method inside your operator overload. If you're lazy to create AllProperties array you can use Reflection but IMO reflection is overkill here.