I have been reading Programming Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008: The Language to get a better understanding of C# and what can be done with it. I came across partial classes which I had already encountered from ASP.Net’s Page class.
To me it seems that you can do what partial classes do with an abstract class and an overridden one. Obviously one team will be in control of the interface via the abstract methods but you would be relying on each other anyway. And if the goal is collaboration then isn’t that what source control and other tools solve.
I am just missing the point to a partial class. Also could someone provide a real world use.
Partial classes have nothing to do with object inheritance. Partial classes are just a way of splitting the source code that defines a class into separate files (this is for example done when you create a new form in your Windows Forms application – one file is “your” code, another file .designer.cs contains the code that VS2008 manages for you).