DataContract names for Generic Types

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When generating proxies for Data contracts that are generics types, we see that the hash of the name follows the types to avoid naming collision.To avoid this we can expose a type as follows

[

DataContract(Name="ShapeWithDimensionsIn{0})]
public class Shape<T>
{
}

So a type like Shape<float> gets translated to ShapeWithDimensionInfloat. Check out this article for a full explanation.

'{#}'  can be used to get the hash.

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