Comparing two collections for equality

collection1 = {1, 2, 3, 4};
collection2 = {2, 4, 1, 3};

collection1 == collection2; // true

if (collection1.Count != collection2.Count)
    return false; // the collections are not equal

foreach (Item item in collection1)
{
    if (!collection2.Contains(item))
        return false; // the collections are not equal
}

foreach (Item item in collection2)
{
    if (!collection1.Contains(item))
        return false; // the collections are not equal
}

return true; // the collections are equal

collection1 = {1, 2, 3, 3, 4}
collection2 = {1, 2, 2, 3, 4}

public class CollectionComparer<T> : IEqualityComparer<IEnumerable<T>>
{
    public bool Equals(IEnumerable<T> first, IEnumerable<T> second)
    {
        if ((first == null) != (second == null))
            return false;

        if (!object.ReferenceEquals(first, second) && (first != null))
        {
            if (first.Count() != second.Count())
                return false;

            if ((first.Count() != 0) && HaveMismatchedElement(first, second))
                return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    private static bool HaveMismatchedElement(IEnumerable<T> first,
                                             IEnumerable<T> second)
    {
        int firstCount;
        int secondCount;

        var firstElementCounts = GetElementCounts(first, out firstCount);
        var secondElementCounts = GetElementCounts(second, out secondCount);

        if (firstCount != secondCount)
            return true;

        foreach (var kvp in firstElementCounts)
        {
            firstCount = kvp.Value;
            secondElementCounts.TryGetValue(kvp.Key, out secondCount);

            if (firstCount != secondCount)
                return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    private static Dictionary<T, int> GetElementCounts(IEnumerable<T> enumerable,
                                                       out int nullCount)
    {
        var dictionary = new Dictionary<T, int>();
        nullCount = 0;

        foreach (T element in enumerable)
        {
            if (element == null)
            {
                nullCount++;
            }
            else
            {
                int num;
                dictionary.TryGetValue(element, out num);
                num++;
                dictionary[element] = num;
            }
        }

        return dictionary;
    }

    public int GetHashCode(IEnumerable<T> enumerable)
    {
        int hash = 17;

        foreach (T val in enumerable.OrderBy(x => x))
            hash = hash * 23 + val.GetHashCode();

        return hash;
    }
}

private bool SetEqual (List<int> left, List<int> right) {

        if (left.Count != right.Count)
            return false;

        Dictionary<int, int> dict = new Dictionary<int, int>();

        foreach (int member in left) {
            if (dict.ContainsKey(member) == false)
                dict[member] = 1;
            else
                dict[member]++;
        }

        foreach (int member in right) {
            if (dict.ContainsKey(member) == false)
                return false;
            else
                dict[member]--;
        }

        foreach (KeyValuePair<int, int> kvp in dict) {
            if (kvp.Value != 0)
                return false;
        }

        return true;

    }

/// <summary>
/// Represents a service used to compare two collections for equality.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of the items in the collections.</typeparam>
public class CollectionComparer<T>
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Compares the content of two collections for equality.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="foo">The first collection.</param>
    /// <param name="bar">The second collection.</param>
    /// <returns>True if both collections have the same content, false otherwise.</returns>
    public bool Execute(ICollection<T> foo, ICollection<T> bar)
    {
        // Declare a dictionary to count the occurence of the items in the collection
        Dictionary<T, int> itemCounts = new Dictionary<T,int>();

        // Increase the count for each occurence of the item in the first collection
        foreach (T item in foo)
        {
            if (itemCounts.ContainsKey(item))
            {
                itemCounts[item]++;
            }
            else
            {
                itemCounts[item] = 1;
            }
        }

        // Wrap the keys in a searchable list
        List<T> keys = new List<T>(itemCounts.Keys);

        // Decrease the count for each occurence of the item in the second collection
        foreach (T item in bar)
        {
            // Try to find a key for the item
            // The keys of a dictionary are compared by reference, so we have to
            // find the original key that is equivalent to the "item"
            // You may want to override ".Equals" to define what it means for
            // two "T" objects to be equal
            T key = keys.Find(
                delegate(T listKey)
                {
                    return listKey.Equals(item);
                });

            // Check if a key was found
            if(key != null)
            {
                itemCounts[key]--;
            }
            else
            {
                // There was no occurence of this item in the first collection, thus the collections are not equal
                return false;
            }
        }

        // The count of each item should be 0 if the contents of the collections are equal
        foreach (int value in itemCounts.Values)
        {
            if (value != 0)
            {
                return false;
            }
        }

        // The collections are equal
        return true;
    }
}

bool equal = collection1.OrderBy(i => i).SequenceEqual(
                 collection2.OrderBy(i => i);

return c1.Count == c2.Count && c1.Intersect(c2).Count() == c1.Count;

__Test Latency(ms)__
N, SetEquals, OrderBy, Intersect
1024, 0, 0, 0
2048, 0, 0, 0
4096, 31.2468, 0, 0
8192, 62.4936, 0, 0
16384, 156.234, 15.6234, 0
32768, 312.468, 15.6234, 46.8702
65536, 640.5594, 46.8702, 31.2468
131072, 1312.3656, 93.7404, 203.1042
262144, 3765.2394, 187.4808, 187.4808
524288, 5718.1644, 374.9616, 406.2084
1048576, 11420.7054, 734.2998, 718.6764
2097152, 35090.1564, 1515.4698, 1484.223

(new HashBag(collection1)).equals(new HashBag(collection2))

// Create the IEnumerable data sources.
string[] names1 = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"../../../names1.txt");
string[] names2 = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"../../../names2.txt");
// Create the query. Note that method syntax must be used here.
IEnumerable<string> differenceQuery =   names1.Except(names2);
// Execute the query.
Console.WriteLine("The following lines are in names1.txt but not names2.txt");
foreach (string s in differenceQuery)
     Console.WriteLine(s);

[Serializable]
public class SetComparer<T> : IEqualityComparer<IEnumerable<T>>
where T:IComparable<T>
{
    public bool Equals(IEnumerable<T> first, IEnumerable<T> second)
    {
        if (first == second)
            return true;
        if ((first == null) || (second == null))
            return false;
        return first.ToHashSet().SetEquals(second);
    }

    public int GetHashCode(IEnumerable<T> enumerable)
    {
        int hash = 17;

        foreach (T val in enumerable.OrderBy(x => x))
            hash = hash * 23 + val.GetHashCode();

        return hash;
    }
}

var list1 = new[] { "Bill", "Bob", "Sally" };
var list2 = new[] { "Bob", "Bill", "Sally" };
bool isequal = list1.Compare(list2).IsSame;

var list1 = new[] { "Billy", "Bob" };
var list2 = new[] { "Bob", "Sally" };
var diff = list1.Compare(list2);
var onlyinlist1 = diff.Removed; //Billy
var onlyinlist2 = diff.Added;   //Sally
var inbothlists = diff.Equal;   //Bob

var original = new Dictionary<int, string>() { { 1, "a" }, { 2, "b" } };
var changed = new Dictionary<int, string>() { { 1, "aaa" }, { 2, "b" } };
var diff = original.Compare(changed, (x, y) => x.Value == y.Value, (x, y) => x.Value == y.Value);
foreach (var item in diff.Different)
  Console.Write("{0} changed to {1}", item.Key.Value, item.Value.Value);
//Will output: a changed to aaa