ISerializerFactoryEx Interface

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This is the new interface for the serializerFactory, it's a version of ISerializerFactory that includes support for local type mappings

Name	Description
SerializerForValue	Find a serializer for a particular value, taking into account, its serialization context.
SerializerForNode	Find a serializer for a particular Nodes value, taking into account, its serialization context.
ReturnSerializer	returns a serializer to the pool
DeserializerForType	Given an Xml type, find a suitable deserializer
DeserializerForElement	Given an element QName and its context, find a suitable de-serializer.
ReturnDeSerializer	Returns the de-serializer object, back to the pool
FindType	Given an element name and containing type, look for its registered XML type.
XsiForPrimaryNS	Returns the XML Schema Instance namespaceURI for the current primary Schema Namespace
IsAnyType	Given an Xml Type, it will return true if it is an AnyType type [xsd:anyType for the 2001 XSD Schema or xsd:ur-type for the 1999 XSD schema]
AreEqualComTypes	Given a pair of Xml Types, this method calculates if a de-serialized instance of both types would result in the same COM type
FindComType	Given a particular Xml Type, this returns the resulting COM if an instance of that type was deserialized

There's a standard implementation of this provided

The serializer and deserializer engines will call this as needed, you shouldn't need to call it yourself.