The CacheKeyFactory extracts a unique signature to identify each instance of an XmlSerializer in the cache.

Summary description for Installer1.

A PerfCounterManager manages the life cycle of performance counter instances and exposes methods to set the counter values.

Helper methods to create the signature for the XmlSerializer parameters.

Helper class to simpify sorting strings (Not really necessary in Whidbey).

Helpers to create a normalized thumbprint for XmlAttributeOverrides objects.

The XmlSerializerCache allows to work around the assembly leak problem in the XmlSerializer ( LINK ) The cache will inspect if it contains any previously cached instances that are compatible with the parameters passed to the various overloads to the GetSerializer method before constructing a new XmlSerializer instance.

Delegete type for events to raise from the serializer cache.