What are the benefits to using a partial class as opposed to an abstract one?

Question

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 whic

Answer 1

We use partial classes to split up our larger classes. That way it's easier to check out a part of the code with Sourcesafe. This limits the cases where four developers need to access the same file.