The interface ensures that you at least get the methods you are expecting; being aware of the definition of the interface ie. all abstract methods that are there to be implemented by any class inheriting the interface. so if some one makes a huge class of his own with several methods besides the ones he inherited from the interface for some addition functionality, and those are of no use to you, its better to use a reference to a subclass (in this case the interface) and assign the concrete class object to it.

额外的好处是，你的代码是安全的，不受任何对具体类的更改，因为你只订阅了具体类的几个方法，而这些方法是那些只要具体类继承了你正在使用的接口就会存在的方法。所以这对你来说是安全的，对编写具体实现的编码器来说是自由的，他可以改变或添加更多的功能到他的具体类中。

You can look at this argument from several angles including the one of a purely OO approach which says to program against an Interface not an implementation. With this thought, using IList follows the same principal as passing around and using Interfaces that you define from scratch. I also believe in the scalability and flexibility factors provided by an Interface in general. If a class implmenting IList<T> needs to be extended or changed, the consuming code does not have to change; it knows what the IList Interface contract adheres to. However using a concrete implementation and List<T> on a class that changes, could cause the calling code to need to be changed as well. This is because a class adhering to IList<T> guarantees a certain behavior that is not guaranteed by a concrete type using List<T>.

此外，还可以在类上修改List<T>的默认实现，例如为.Add、.Remove或任何其他IList方法实现IList<T>，为开发人员提供了很大的灵活性和能力，否则由List<T>预定义

The interface ensures that you at least get the methods you are expecting; being aware of the definition of the interface ie. all abstract methods that are there to be implemented by any class inheriting the interface. so if some one makes a huge class of his own with several methods besides the ones he inherited from the interface for some addition functionality, and those are of no use to you, its better to use a reference to a subclass (in this case the interface) and assign the concrete class object to it.

额外的好处是，你的代码是安全的，不受任何对具体类的更改，因为你只订阅了具体类的几个方法，而这些方法是那些只要具体类继承了你正在使用的接口就会存在的方法。所以这对你来说是安全的，对编写具体实现的编码器来说是自由的，他可以改变或添加更多的功能到他的具体类中。

令人惊讶的是，这些List和IList的问题(或答案)都没有提到签名差异。(这就是为什么我在SO上搜索这个问题!)

下面是List中包含的在IList中找不到的方法，至少在。net 4.5(大约2015年)

AddRange AsReadOnly BinarySearch 能力 ConvertAll 存在 找到 FindAll FindIndex FindLast FindLastIndex ForEach GetRange InsertRange LastIndexOf RemoveAll RemoveRange 反向 排序 ToArray TrimExcess TrueForAll

IList<T>是一个接口，所以你可以继承另一个类，仍然实现IList<T>，而继承List<T>阻止你这样做。

例如，如果有一个类a，你的类B继承了它，那么你不能使用List<T>

class A : B, IList<T> { ... }

如果。net 5.0取代了System.Collections.Generic。List<T>到system . collection . generic . linearlist <T>. . net总是拥有List<T>这个名称，但是他们保证IList<T>是一个契约。所以恕我直言，我们(至少我)不应该使用别人的名字(尽管在这种情况下是。net)，之后会遇到麻烦。

在使用IList<T>的情况下，调用者总是保证事情正常工作，而实现者可以自由地将底层集合更改为任何可供选择的IList具体实现