Is there a better way to compare two objects partially then brute force?

Question

I've got a class called Account. After getting data from a webserver and a database, I want to compare the objects from the two sources in specific fields.

To do this, I wrote the following:

public class Account2 : Account
{
    public bool Equals(Account acc)
    {
        if (acc.AccountNumber != this.AccountNumber)
            return false;
        if (acc.Name != this.Name)
            return false;
        if (acc.Address1_Line1 != this.Address1_Line1)
            return false;
        if (acc.Address1_PostalCode != this.Address1_PostalCode)
            return false;
        if (acc.Address1_City != this.Address1_City)
            return false;
        if (acc.PrimaryContactId.Id != this.PrimaryContactId.Id)
            return false;
        if (acc.OwnerId.Id != this.OwnerId.Id)
            return false;
        if (acc.Address1_Name != this.Address1_Name)
            return false;
        if (acc.Address1_Country != this.Address1_Country)
            return false;
        if (acc.Fax != this.Fax)
            return false;
        if (acc.Telephone1 != this.Telephone1)
            return false;
        if (acc.Telephone2 != this.Telephone2)
            return false;
        if (acc.Telephone3 != this.Telephone3)
            return false;
        if (acc.EMailAddress1 != this.EMailAddress1)
            return false;
        if (acc.EMailAddress2 != this.EMailAddress2)
            return false;

        return true;
    }
}

I thought about using attributes on the properties and do a loop over all to determine which I should compare. The problem is I dont have access to the base Account-class. The main issue is when adding another class. I have to do this for 5 other ones which really is a lot to type. Additionally its hard to maintain if I add another field.

Is there a better way to do this comparison?

Have you tried this http://www.nuget.org/packages/CompareNETObjects — Ashley John, Jul 13 '16 at 06:26
Also please check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/506096/comparing-object-properties-in-c-sharp — Ashley John, Jul 13 '16 at 06:28
I tried using it. But I get the following error: "Cannot compare objects with a non integer indexer for object xxx " And I dont think I can fix this. — Simon Balling, Jul 13 '16 at 07:47
Which one you have used the `CompareNetObjects` or the snippet in the SO answer. — Ashley John, Jul 13 '16 at 07:57
The "Basic usage"-example from http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/754435/Compare-NET-Objects-Tutorial — Simon Balling, Jul 13 '16 at 07:58
you could try omitting that non integer indexer from the comparison or add a custom comparer for that . Check the configuartion for CompareNetObjects — Ashley John, Jul 13 '16 at 08:04

Is there a better way to compare two objects partially then brute force?

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