C# Interview Questions: What are the advantages of using interfaces

This is the most commonly asked interview question. This interview question is being asked in almost all the dot net interviews. It is very important that we understand all the concepts of interfaces and abstract classes.

Interfaces are very powerful. If properly used, interfaces provide all the advantages as listed below.

1. Interfaces allow us to implement polymorphic behaviour. Ofcourse, abstract classes can also be used to implement polymorphic behaviour.

2. Interfaces allow us to develop very loosely coupled systems.

3. Interfaces enable mocking for better unit testing.

4. Interfaces enables us to implement multiple class inheritance in C#.

5. Interfaces are great for implementing Inverson of Control or Dependancy Injection.

6. Interfaces enable parallel application development.

If you can think of any other advantages of using interfaces, or if you can add more explanation, please feel free to do so using the form below.

For basic interview questions on interfaces, you can read this article.

11 comments:

PankajJune 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM
When you don't want a massive hierarchical type framework we prefer interface
AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM
So would you say you could declare an interface and any class implementing that interface will be type safe?
AnonymousMarch 27, 2012 at 8:19 AM
I know interface can be passed as parameter .Is it possible in abstract class?
AnonymousSeptember 8, 2013 at 5:39 AM
explain this
1.Inverson of Control or Dependancy Injection.
2.parallel appliction development....
amardeepSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:50 AM
we are using interfaces in distributed architecture,, because for giving the reference to the client we use interfaces, which will provide the methods or functions signature .
and one more thing when we deploy any application on client system then we have three things to deploy i.e
1. UI (exe file) that is nothing the application
2.config file
3.interface's .dll files
Javier KatalonyJanuary 19, 2014 at 4:44 AM
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AnonymousFebruary 4, 2014 at 11:46 PM
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Sangeeta
AnonymousAugust 17, 2014 at 1:51 AM
A doubt, I beleived that interfaces are for security issues where it prevents direct access to metods.Am I wrong?
UnknownJune 5, 2019 at 2:45 AM
Interface are used to maintain common architecture

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