Simple and Efficient Programming with C#: Skills to Build Applications with Visual Studio and .NET

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V. SarcarSimple and Efficient Programming with C# https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8737-8_2

2. Abstract Class or Interface?

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Kolkata, West Bengal, India

 

There are many code segments in which you can use an abstract class instead of a C# interface and vice versa. If the code is small and is used to perform a simple task, you may not see the difference between these two techniques. On the contrary, when the code is big and extendable, the choice between them can play a vital role in performance and maintenance.

This chapter doesn’t focus on the basic differences between an abstract class and an interface. Instead, I’ll show some code segments ...