searchValue is an object and declared in the function declaration:

 private static bool ShouldCreateFilterItem(object searchCriteriaViewModel, PropertyInfo pi, string doNotSearchValue, out object searchValue)
        {
            bool shouldCreateFilterItem = true;

            searchValue = pi.GetValue(searchCriteriaViewModel);// I fixed the code

>That depends on a lot of things you're not telling us. What type is searchValue?
>
>Regardless if this code is C#, the second = expression is pointless because it's simply assigning the first value assigned a second time to the same variable. Valid, but pointless and the compiler probably optimizes that away completely.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi,
>>
>>In one of the methods I see the following code
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>>

>>searchValue = searchValue = pi.GetValue(searchCriteriaViewModel);

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>>What does this double = mean here? Is it a typo or has some meaning?
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>>Thanks in advance.