Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Most Common .NET Interfaces

Because of their importance in polymorphism, the .NET Framework defines a large quantity of interfaces implemented by most types within the Framework. You need to understand the most common built-in interfaces because they provide great flexibility in your code, and in several situations you need to implement such interfaces in your objects that need to perform particular tasks. Table 13.1 summarizes the most common .NET interfaces.

TABLE 13.1 Most Common Interfaces

The ICloneable interface is discussed in Chapter 4, and the IDisposable interface is discussed in Chapter 8. This chapter therefore does not revisit ...