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+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+/*============================================================
+**
+**
+**
+** Purpose: A base implementation of the IFormatterConverter
+**          interface that uses the Convert class and the 
+**          IConvertible interface.
+**
+**
+============================================================*/
+namespace System.Runtime.Serialization {
+    using System;
+    using System.Globalization;
+    using System.Diagnostics.Contracts;
+
+[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)]
+    public class FormatterConverter : IFormatterConverter {
+
+        public FormatterConverter() {
+        }
+
+        public Object Convert(Object value, Type type) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ChangeType(value, type, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public Object Convert(Object value, TypeCode typeCode) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ChangeType(value, typeCode, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public bool ToBoolean(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToBoolean(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public char   ToChar(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToChar(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        [CLSCompliant(false)]
+        public sbyte  ToSByte(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToSByte(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public byte   ToByte(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToByte(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public short  ToInt16(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToInt16(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        [CLSCompliant(false)]
+        public ushort ToUInt16(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToUInt16(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public int    ToInt32(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToInt32(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        [CLSCompliant(false)]
+        public uint   ToUInt32(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToUInt32(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public long   ToInt64(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToInt64(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        [CLSCompliant(false)]
+        public ulong  ToUInt64(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToUInt64(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        } 
+
+        public float  ToSingle(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToSingle(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public double ToDouble(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToDouble(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public Decimal ToDecimal(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToDecimal(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public DateTime ToDateTime(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToDateTime(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+
+        public String   ToString(Object value) {
+            if (value==null) {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
+            }
+            Contract.EndContractBlock();
+            return System.Convert.ToString(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        }
+    }
+}
+