how would i know if a class is an interface or simple class?

The declaration of an Interface is as follows Public interface IinterfaceName { //interface members void DoCalculations(); } If you observe the keyword "interface" and the name of the interface starts with "I" . it is an interface. Also the interface members only contains contracts, no definitions while in a regular class, there will be the keyword "class" and doesn't have any specific letter to start with the class name. So, just to identify visually this much should be enough. For the difference between class and an Interface you will find many on google. Hope this helps.

An interface provides a contract specifying how to talk to an object, but not the specifics of how that object handles that request (apart from parameters and return types etc) A class provides both the information on how to talk to an object, but in some cases the actual implementation (think overriding a method of a base class).