Partial classes are primarily introduced to help Code generators, so we (users) don't end up loosing all our work / changes to the generated classes like ASP.NET's .designer.cs class each time we regenerate, almost all new tools that generate code LINQ, EntityFrameworks, ASP.NET use partial classes for generated code, so we can safely add or alter logic of these generated codes taking advantage of Partial classes and methods, but be very carefully before you add stuff to the generated code using Partial classes its easier if we break the build but worst if we introduce runtime errors. For more details check this https://web.archive.org/web/20211020111732/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/071509-1.aspx

Partial classes are primarily introduced to help Code generators, so we (users) don't end up loosing all our work / changes to the generated classes like ASP.NET's .designer.cs class each time we regenerate, almost all new tools that generate code LINQ, EntityFrameworks, ASP.NET use partial classes for generated code, so we can safely add or alter logic of these generated codes taking advantage of Partial classes and methods, but be very carefully before you add stuff to the generated code using Partial classes its easier if we break the build but worst if we introduce runtime errors. For more details check this https://web.archive.org/web/20211020111732/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/071509-1.aspx

一个很好的用法是将生成的代码与属于同一类的手写代码分离。

例如，由于LINQ to SQL使用部分类，您可以编写自己的某些功能片段的实现(如多对多关系)，并且当您重新生成代码时，这些自定义代码片段不会被覆盖。

WinForms代码也是如此。所有设计器生成的代码都放在一个文件中，您通常不会接触这个文件。手写的代码放到另一个文件中。这样，当您在设计器中更改某些内容时，您所做的更改不会被影响。

下面列出了部分类的一些优点。

您可以分离UI设计代码和业务逻辑代码，以便易于阅读和理解。例如，你正在使用Visual Studio开发一个web应用程序，并添加一个新的web表单，然后有两个源文件，“aspx.cs”和“aspx.designer.cs”。这两个文件具有具有partial关键字的相同类。".aspx.cs"类有业务逻辑代码，而"aspx.designer.cs"有用户界面控件定义。

When working with automatically generated source, the code can be added to the class without having to recreate the source file. For example you are working with LINQ to SQL and create a DBML file. Now when you drag and drop a table it creates a partial class in designer.cs and all table columns have properties in the class. You need more columns in this table to bind on the UI grid but you don't want to add a new column to the database table so you can create a separate source file for this class that has a new property for that column and it will be a partial class. So that does affect the mapping between database table and DBML entity but you can easily get an extra field. It means you can write the code on your own without messing with the system generated code.

多个开发人员可以同时为类编写代码。

压缩大型类可以更好地维护应用程序。假设您有一个具有多个接口的类，因此您可以根据接口实现创建多个源文件。理解和维护源文件具有部分类的接口是很容易的。

分部类的主要用途是生成代码。如果你看看WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)网络，你用标记(XML)定义你的UI。该标记被编译成部分类。您可以用自己的部分类填充代码。

在处理大型类时，或在团队中工作时，尽可能保持所有内容的干净，您可以在不重写的情况下编辑(或始终提交更改)