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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: The interface provides the connection between an
+** instance of SerializationInfo and the formatter-provided
+** class which knows how to parse the data inside the 
+** SerializationInfo.
+**
+**
+============================================================*/
+namespace System.Runtime.Serialization {
+    using System;
+
+    [CLSCompliant(false)]
+[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)]
+    public interface IFormatterConverter {
+        Object Convert(Object value, Type type);
+        Object Convert(Object value, TypeCode typeCode);
+        bool   ToBoolean(Object value);
+        char   ToChar(Object value);
+        sbyte  ToSByte(Object value);
+        byte   ToByte(Object value);
+        short  ToInt16(Object value);
+        ushort ToUInt16(Object value);
+        int    ToInt32(Object value);
+        uint   ToUInt32(Object value);
+        long   ToInt64(Object value);
+        ulong  ToUInt64(Object value);
+        float  ToSingle(Object value);
+        double ToDouble(Object value);
+        Decimal ToDecimal(Object value);
+        DateTime ToDateTime(Object value);
+        String   ToString(Object value);
+    }
+}