Cut down FormatterServices (dotnet/coreclr#10653)

Commit migrated from https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/commit/fe7a5f082ca14f5945eedc8d0d23311c0d3701a0

diff --git a/src/coreclr/src/mscorlib/src/System/Runtime/Serialization/FormatterServices.cs b/src/coreclr/src/mscorlib/src/System/Runtime/Serialization/FormatterServices.cs
index 5f07c3a..1813932 100644 (file)
--- a/src/coreclr/src/mscorlib/src/System/Runtime/Serialization/FormatterServices.cs
+++ b/src/coreclr/src/mscorlib/src/System/Runtime/Serialization/FormatterServices.cs
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ using System.Diagnostics.Contracts;
 
 namespace System.Runtime.Serialization
 {
+    // This class duplicates a class on CoreFX. We are keeping it here -- just this one method --
+    // as it was widely invoked by reflection to workaround it being missing in .NET Core 1.0
     internal static class FormatterServices
     {
         // Gets a new instance of the object.  The entire object is initalized to 0 and no 
@@ -56,28 +58,6 @@ namespace System.Runtime.Serialization
 
         [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
         private static extern Object nativeGetUninitializedObject(RuntimeType type);
-        private static Binder s_binder = Type.DefaultBinder;
-
-        /*============================LoadAssemblyFromString============================
-        **Action: Loads an assembly from a given string.  The current assembly loading story
-        **        is quite confusing.  If the assembly is in the fusion cache, we can load it
-        **        using the stringized-name which we transmitted over the wire.  If that fails,
-        **        we try for a lookup of the assembly using the simple name which is the first
-        **        part of the assembly name.  If we can't find it that way, we'll return null
-        **        as our failure result.
-        **Returns: The loaded assembly or null if it can't be found.
-        **Arguments: assemblyName -- The stringized assembly name.
-        **Exceptions: None
-        ==============================================================================*/
-        internal static Assembly LoadAssemblyFromString(String assemblyName)
-        {
-            //
-            // Try using the stringized assembly name to load from the fusion cache.
-            //
-            BCLDebug.Trace("SER", "[LoadAssemblyFromString]Looking for assembly: ", assemblyName);
-            Assembly found = Assembly.Load(assemblyName);
-            return found;
-        }
     }
 }