Provides base functionality for runtime serialization formatters.
Object
Formatter
[Visual Basic] MustInherit Public Class Formatter Implements IFormatter [C#] public abstract class Formatter : IFormatter [C++] public __gc __abstract class Formatter : public IFormatter [JScript] public abstract class Formatter implements IFormatter
Formatter is the abstract (in Visual Basic MustInherit) base class for all runtime serialization formatters. Provides some helper methods for implementing the IFormatter interface. It manages queueing objects for serialization (the functionality formerly provided by the IGraphWalker interface) and generating ids on a per-object basis.
Namespace: System.Runtime.Serialization
Assembly: mscorlib.dll