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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.
+
+/*============================================================
+**
+** Interface: IFormatter;
+**
+**
+** Purpose: The interface for all formatters.
+**
+**
+===========================================================*/
+namespace System.Runtime.Serialization {
+    using System.Runtime.Remoting;
+    using System;
+    using System.IO;
+
+[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)]
+    public interface IFormatter {
+        Object Deserialize(Stream serializationStream);
+
+        void Serialize(Stream serializationStream, Object graph);
+
+
+        ISurrogateSelector SurrogateSelector {
+            get;
+            set;
+        }
+
+        SerializationBinder Binder {
+            get;
+            set;
+        }
+
+        StreamingContext Context {
+            get;
+            set;
+        }
+    }
+}