最简单的例子就是支付处理器。(Paypal, PDS等)。

假设您创建了一个具有ProcessACH和ProcessCreditCard方法的接口IPaymentProcessor。

现在可以实现一个具体的Paypal实现。让这些方法调用PayPal特定的函数。

如果你决定以后需要换到另一个提供商，你可以这样做。只需为新提供程序创建另一个具体实现。由于您所绑定的只是您的接口(契约)，因此您可以在不更改使用它的代码的情况下切换应用程序使用的接口。

如果浏览. net Framework程序集并深入到任何标准对象的基类中，您将注意到许多接口(名为ISomeName的成员)。

Interfaces are basically for implementing frameworks, large or small. I felt the same way about interfaces until I wanted to write a framework of my own. I also found that understanding interfaces helped me learn frameworks much more rapidly. The moment that you want to write a more elegant solution for just about anything, you will find that an interface makes a lot of sense. It's like a method of letting a class put on the appropriate clothes for the job. More importantly, interfaces allow systems to become much more self-documenting, because complex objects become less complex when the class implements interfaces, which helps to categorize its functionality.

类在希望能够显式或隐式地参与框架时实现接口。例如，IDisposable是一个公共接口，它为流行且有用的Dispose()方法提供方法签名。在框架中，您或其他开发人员需要知道的关于类的所有信息是，如果它实现了IDisposable，那么您就知道((IDisposable)myObject). dispose()可用于清理目的。

经典示例:在没有实现IDisposable接口的情况下，你不能在c#中使用"using()"关键字构造，因为它要求任何指定为参数的对象都可以隐式转换为IDisposable。

复杂的例子: 一个更复杂的例子是System.ComponentModel.Component类。这个类同时实现了IDisposable和IComponent。大多数(如果不是全部的话)具有与之关联的可视化设计器的. net对象实现了IComponent，以便IDE能够与组件交互。

CONCLUSION: As you become more familiar with the .NET Framework, the first thing you will do when encountering a new class in the Object Browser or within the .NET Reflector (free) tool (http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/) is to check to see which class it inherits from and also the interfaces that it implements. .NET Reflector is even better than the Object Browser because it lets you see the Derived classes as well. That allows you to learn about all objects that derive from a particular class, thereby potentially learning about framework functionality that you did not know existed. This is particularly significant when updated or new namespaces are added to the .NET Framework.

In my experience the driving force to create interfaces didn't occur until I start doing unit testing with a mocking framework. It became abundantly clear that using interfaces was going to make mocking much easier (since the framework depended on the methods being virtual). Once I started I saw the value of abstracting away the interface to my class from the implementation. Even if I don't create an actual interface, I try now to make my methods virtual (providing an implicit interface that can be overridden).

我发现还有许多其他原因可以加强重构到接口的良好实践，但是单元测试/模拟的事情提供了最初的“顿悟时刻”的实践经验。

EDIT: To clarify, with unit testing and mocking I always have two implementations -- the real, concrete implementation and an alternate mock implementation used in testing. Once you have two implementations, the value of the interface becomes obvious -- deal with it in terms of the interface so you can replace the implementation at any time. In this case I'm replacing it with a mock interface. I know that I can do this without an actual interface if my class is constructed properly, but using an actual interface reinforces this and makes it cleaner (clearer to the reader). Without this impetus, I don't think I would have appreciated the value of interfaces since most of my classes only, ever have a single concrete implementation.

当您希望能够对多个类型使用单个变量，但所有这些类型通过接口声明实现相同的方法时，Jimmy是正确的。然后你可以在接口类型变量上调用它们的main方法。

然而，使用接口还有第二个原因。当项目架构师和实现编码员是不同的人时，或者有几个实现编码员和一个项目经理。负责人可以编写一大堆接口，并查看系统的互操作，然后让开发人员用实现类填充接口。这是确保多人编写兼容类的最佳方法，而且他们可以并行地完成。

使用接口有很多目的。

Use in polymorphic behavior. Where you want to call specific methods of a child class with an inteface having a reference to the child class. Having a contract with classes to implement all of the methods where it is necessary, like most common use is with COM objects , where a wrapper class is generated on a DLL which inherits the interface; these methods are called behind the scenes, and you just need to implement them but with the same structure as defined in the COM DLL which you can only know through the interface that they expose. To reduce memory usage by loading specific methods in a class. Like if you have three business objects and they are implemented in a single class, you can use three interfaces.

例如IUser, IOrder, IOrderItem

public interface IUser()
{

void AddUser(string name ,string fname);

}

// Same for IOrder and IOrderItem
//


public class  BusinessLayer: IUser, IOrder, IOrderItem

{    
    public void AddUser(string name ,string fname)
    {
        // Do stuffs here.
    }

    // All methods from all interfaces must be implemented.

}

如果你只想添加一个用户，可以这样做:

IUser user = new (IUser)BusinessLayer();

// It will load  all methods into memory which are declared in the IUser interface.

user.AddUser();

As several people have probably already answered, interfaces can be used to enforce certain behaviors between classes that will not implement those behaviors the same way. So by implementing an interface you are saying that your class has the behavior of the interface. The IAnimal interface would not be a typical interface because Dog, Cat, Bird, etc. classes are types of animals, and should probably extend it, which is a case of inheritance. Instead, an interface would be more like animal behavior in this case, such as IRunnable, IFlyable, ITrainable, etc.

接口有很多好处，其中一个关键就是可插拔性。例如，声明一个具有List参数的方法将允许传入实现List接口的任何东西，允许开发人员在以后删除和插入不同的列表，而不必重写大量代码。

您可能永远不会使用接口，但如果您正在从头开始设计一个项目，特别是某种类型的框架，您可能会想要熟悉它们。

我建议大家阅读Coad、Mayfield和Kern撰写的《Java设计》中关于接口的章节。它们比一般的介绍性文本解释得好一点。如果你不使用Java，你可以只阅读本章的开头，主要是一些概念。