This class encapsulates a default set of rules for comparing objects. These rules may be used as the foundation of a suite of standard assertion functions for comparing identity, equality and relations.

The comparison engine has extension points available:

Custom comparers defined through CustomComparers or CustomEqualityComparers have always a higher priority than any built-in comparer, including inner type comparers such as IEquatable<(Of <(T>)>) or IComparable<(Of <(T>)>).