Re: interfaces

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abcd wrote:
Can someone tell me whats the exact advantage of Interfaces in C#. To me abstract classes serves the purpose and have all good things then what is special about interfaces...can someone tell me some real example from system, user, developer point of view....

You can implement many interfaces in a class but only have one single base-class.

Also an interface doesn't force you to make the methods virtual/override.

Additionally all methods for an interface have to be public.
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