Work in progress to add support for covariant return types to the .NET runtime. Soon we'll be able to override a virtual method returning `object` with a method returning `string`. Because of how array variance works, weird things might be possible in IL. 

class Base
{
    public virtual IntPtr[] Fun() => null;
}

// This is obvious pseude-code because C# won't let us introduce methods differing
// in return type. C# also requires to be explicit about "virtual" and "override".
// But IL... not so much.
class Derived : Base
{
    // overrides Base.Fun on 32bit platforms.
    public override uint[] Fun() => null;

    // overrides Base.Fun on 64bit platforms.
    public override ulong[] Fun() => null;
}

object text1 = "test";
object text2 = "test";

object num1 = 1;
object num2 = 1;

Console.WriteLine("text1 == text2 : " + (text1 == text2));
Console.WriteLine("num1 == num2 : " + (num1 == num2));

object text2 = "test".ToLower();

public sealed class String : ...
{
    ...
    public static bool operator ==(string a, string b)
    {
      return string.Equals(a, b);
    }
   ...
}

string text1 = "test";
string text2 = "test".ToLower();

Console.WriteLine("text1 == text2 (string) : " + (text1 == text2));
Console.WriteLine("text1 == text2 (object) : " + ((object)text1 == (object)text2));

object text1 = "test";
object text2 = "test".ToLower();

Console.WriteLine("text1 Equals text2 : " + text1.Equals(text2));
Console.WriteLine("text1 Equals text2 : " + object.Equals(text1, text2));

public class MyContext : DbContext, IUnitOfWork
    {
        // ...
        public IList<T> GetRows<T>(string sql, params object[] parameters) where T: class
        {
            return this.Database.SqlQuery<T>(sql, parameters).ToList();
        }
    }

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator.Demo;

public enum Gender
{
    NotSpecified,
    [Display(Name = "مرد")] Male,
    [Display(Name = "زن")] Female
}

public static class Extensions
{
    public static string GetDisplayName(this Enum value)
    {
        if (value is null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(value));

        var attribute = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString())?
            .GetCustomAttributes<DisplayAttribute>(false).FirstOrDefault();

        if (attribute is null)
            return value.ToString();

        return attribute.GetType().GetProperty("Name")?.GetValue(attribute, null)?.ToString();
    }
}

namespace NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator.Demo
{
  public static class GenderExtensions
  {
      public static string GetDisplayName(this Gender @enum)
      {
          return @enum switch
            {
                Gender.NotSpecified => "NotSpecified",
                Gender.Male => "مرد",
                Gender.Female => "زن",
                _ => throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(@enum))
            };
      }
  }
}

[Generator]
public class EnumExtensionsGenerator : ISourceGenerator
{
    public void Initialize(GeneratorInitializationContext context)
    {}

    public void Execute(GeneratorExecutionContext context)
    {
        var compilation = context.Compilation;
        foreach (var syntaxTree in compilation.SyntaxTrees)
        {
            var semanticModel = compilation.GetSemanticModel(syntaxTree);
            var immutableHashSet = syntaxTree.GetRoot()
                .DescendantNodesAndSelf()
                .OfType<EnumDeclarationSyntax>()
                .Select(enumDeclarationSyntax => semanticModel.GetDeclaredSymbol(enumDeclarationSyntax))
                .OfType<ITypeSymbol>()
                /*.Where(typeSymbol => typeSymbol.GetAttributes().Any(
                    attributeData => string.Equals(attributeData.AttributeClass?.Name, "GenerateExtensions",
                        StringComparison.Ordinal)
                ))*/
                .ToImmutableHashSet();

            foreach (var typeSymbol in immutableHashSet)
            {
                var source = GenerateEnumExtensions(typeSymbol);
                context.AddSource($"{typeSymbol.Name}Extensions.cs", source);
            }
        }
    }

    private string GenerateEnumExtensions(ITypeSymbol typeSymbol)
    {
        return $@"namespace {typeSymbol.ContainingNamespace}
{{
  public static class {typeSymbol.Name}Extensions
  {{
      public static string GetDisplayName(this {typeSymbol.Name} @enum)
      {{
          {GenerateExtensionMethodBody(typeSymbol)}
      }}
  }}
}}";
    }

    private static string GenerateExtensionMethodBody(ITypeSymbol typeSymbol)
    {
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.Append(@"return @enum switch
            {
");

        foreach (var fieldSymbol in typeSymbol.GetMembers().OfType<IFieldSymbol>())
        {
            var displayAttribute = fieldSymbol.GetAttributes()
                .FirstOrDefault(attributeData =>
                    string.Equals(attributeData.AttributeClass?.Name, "DisplayAttribute", StringComparison.Ordinal));
            if (displayAttribute is null)
            {                
                sb.AppendLine(
                    $@"                {typeSymbol.Name}.{fieldSymbol.Name} => ""{fieldSymbol.Name}"",");
            }
            else
            {
                var displayAttributeName = displayAttribute.NamedArguments
                    .FirstOrDefault(x => string.Equals(x.Key, "Name", StringComparison.Ordinal))
                    .Value;
                sb.AppendLine(
                    $@"                {typeSymbol.Name}.{fieldSymbol.Name} => ""{displayAttributeName.Value}"",");
            }
        }

        sb.Append(
            @"                _ => throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(@enum))
            };");

        return sb.ToString();
    }

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>

    <EmitCompilerGeneratedFiles>true</EmitCompilerGeneratedFiles>
    <CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath>Generated</CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath>
  </PropertyGroup>
  
  <Target Name="CleanSourceGeneratedFiles" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild" DependsOnTargets="$(BeforeBuildDependsOn)">
    <RemoveDir Directories="$(CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath)" />
  </Target>  
  <ItemGroup>
    <!-- Exclude the output of source generators from the compilation -->
    <Compile Remove="$(CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath)/**/*.cs" />
<Content Include="$(CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath)/**" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator\NotifyPropertyChangedGenerator.csproj" 
OutputItemType="Analyzer" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

{BaseIntermediateOutpath}/generated/{Assembly}/{SourceGeneratorName}/{GeneratedFile}

• Custom Membership Providers 
• Codefirstmembership
• EFmembership
• ...

public class StructureMapGlobalFilterProvider : IFilterProvider
    {
        public StructureMapGlobalFilterProvider(IContainer container, GlobalFilterRegistrationList filterList)
        {
            _container = container;
            _filterList = filterList;
        }

        private IContainer _container;
        private GlobalFilterRegistrationList _filterList;

        public IEnumerable<Filter> GetFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)
        {
            var filters = new List<Filter>();
            if (_filterList == null || _filterList.Count == 0)
                return filters;
            foreach (GlobalFilterRegistration registration in _filterList)
            {
                var actionFilter = _container.GetInstance(registration.Type);
                var filter = new Filter(actionFilter, FilterScope.Global, registration.Order);
                filters.Add(filter);
            }
            return filters;
        }
    }

    public class GlobalFilterRegistration
    {
        public Type Type { get; set; }
        public int? Order { get; set; }
    }

    public class GlobalFilterRegistrationList : List<GlobalFilterRegistration>
    {
    }

 var globalFilterRegistrationList = new GlobalFilterRegistrationList
                {
                    new GlobalFilterRegistration
                    {
                        Type = typeof (LogAttribute),
                        Order
                            = 1
                    }
                };
                container.Configure(x =>
                {
                    x.For<IFilterProvider>().Use<StructureMapGlobalFilterProvider>();
                    x.For<GlobalFilterRegistrationList>().Use(globalFilterRegistrationList);
                });