What Is Partial Class And How To Use It

C# is a rich language with enormous features. And Partial class is one of them which can really make the difference. Also in many interviews, one is asked to check the concept by an interviewer. So here I thought to put my view starting from this article.

What is Partial Class?

It is a special feature in C# which allows you to write more than one class with the same name which will be combined as one class by the compiler as soon we compile the program.

Why do we need Partial Class?

At times more than one developer may need to work on a single class but it may get difficult to work on it. Here comes the use of Partial as a savior.

How to use Partial Class?

It’s very simple, use Partial keyword with all the classes with the same name as shown in the example below.

In the example depicted below, I have taken CalculateClass as the class name and I have got to write two methods Add and Multiply at the same time. It became easy to use write it using Partial. When it’ll be compiled then compiler will consider it as one CalculateClass class.

What is Partial Class and how to use it

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