Intersect with a custom IEqualityComparer using Linq

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First of all this is wrong:

public bool Equals(MyClass item1, MyClass item2)
{
    return GetHashCode(item1) == GetHashCode(item2);
}

If the hashcode’s are different for sure the corresponding 2 items are different, but if they’re equal is not guaranteed that the corresponding 2 items are equal.

So this is the correct Equals implementation:

public bool Equals(MyClass item1, MyClass item2)
{
    if(object.ReferenceEquals(item1, item2))
        return true;
    if(item1 == null || item2 == null)
        return false;
    return item1.MyString1.Equals(item2.MyString1) &&
           item1.MyString2.Equals(item2.MyString2);
}

As Slacks suggested (anticipating me) the code is the following:

var Default = new List<MyClass>
{
    new MyClass{MyString1="A",MyString2="A",MyString3="-"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="B",MyString2="B",MyString3="-"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="X",MyString2="X",MyString3="-"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="Y",MyString2="Y",MyString3="-"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="Z",MyString2="Z",MyString3="-"},

};
var Good = new List<MyClass>
{
    new MyClass{MyString1="A",MyString2="A",MyString3="+"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="B",MyString2="B",MyString3="+"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="C",MyString2="C",MyString3="+"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="D",MyString2="D",MyString3="+"},
    new MyClass{MyString1="E",MyString2="E",MyString3="+"},
};
var wantedResult = Good.Intersect(Default, new MyEqualityComparer())
                       .Union(Default, new MyEqualityComparer());

// wantedResult:
// A A +
// B B +
// X X -
// Y Y -
// Z Z -

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