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eferenced assembly and its properties configured with the stored information. Theserialization process needs mapping information rather than type information.That said, you can see in the preceding listing that the ArrayList object is serialized withtype information in the node. This happens because the ArrayList classmanages generic object references, whereas concrete types are needed forserialization and deserialization. To force .NET Framework for-matters to include typeinformation, you simply set the TypeFormat property of the serializer. Let's look at howto accomplish this with the XML serializer.Adding Type InformationOne of the constructors of the XmlSerializerclass takes a second argument of typeXmlTypeMapping. The XmlSerializer class is used to encode and serialize an object toSOAP. The following code is used to add XSD type definitions to a serialized class:SoapReflectionImporter imp = new SoapReflectionImporter();XmlTypeMapping tm = imp.ImportTypeMapping(typeof(Employee));XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(tm);Let's assume the following class definition:public class Employee{public int ID;public string FirstName;public string LastName;}The typed XML output looks like this:4DinoEspositoThe final output gets a bit more complicated if custom types are involved. For example,consider the following nested classes:public class Employee{public int ID;public string FirstName;public string LastName;public Order LastOrder;}public class Order{402