IList vs List [duplicate]

Answer 1

I will give you a very simple example

Lets say we have a class library and we have class1 as class

It has 2 methods

public IList getList()
{
    IList mylist=new List();
    mylist.add("hello");
    mylist.add("hi");
    return mylist;
}

public List getList()
{
List mylist=new List();
mylist.add("hello");
mylist.add("hi");
return mylist;
}

Now when the class library is being used. and it happens than you need to change the Collection from List to Array or indexed type.

We can do this like

public IList getList()
{
    IList mylist=new int[10];
    lst[0] = 10;
    return mylist;
}

But We cannot do this

public List getList()
{
    List mylist=new int[10];
    lst[0] = 10;
    return mylist;
}