webcast中關於IExtensibleDataObject例子中的一個小疑問

[DataContract(Name = "Person",Namespace = "http://www.cohowinery.com/employees")]
class Person : IExtensibleDataObject
{
    private ExtensionDataObject extensionDataObject_value;
    public ExtensionDataObject ExtensionData
    {
        get
        {
            return extensionDataObject_value;
        }
        set
        {
            extensionDataObject_value = value;
        }
    }
    [DataMember]
    public string Name;
}

[DataContract(Name = "Person",Namespace = "http://www.cohowinery.com/employees")]
class PersonVersion2
{
    [DataMember(Order = 2)]
    public int ID;

    [DataMember]
    public string Name;

    private ExtensionDataObject extensionDataObject_value;
    public ExtensionDataObject ExtensionData
    {
        get
        {
            return extensionDataObject_value;
        }
        set
        {
            extensionDataObject_value = value;
        }
    }
}

public sealed class Program
{
    private Program()
    {
        // Private constructor to prevent creation of this class.
    }

    public static void Main()
    {
        try
        {
            WriteVersion2("V2.xml");
            WriteToVersion1("v2.xml");
            ReadVersion2("v2.xml");
        }
        catch (SerializationException exc)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", exc.Message, exc.StackTrace);
        }
        finally
        {
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }

    // Create an instance of the version 2.0 class. It has  
    // extra data (ID field) that version 1.0 does 
    // not understand.
    static void WriteVersion2(string path)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Creating a version 2 object");
        PersonVersion2 p2 = new PersonVersion2();
        p2.Name = "Elizabeth";
        p2.ID = 2006;

        Console.WriteLine("Object data includes an ID");
        Console.WriteLine("\t Name: {0}", p2.Name);
        Console.WriteLine("\t ID: {0} \n", p2.ID);
        // Create an instance of the DataContractSerializer.
        DataContractSerializer ser =
            new DataContractSerializer(typeof(PersonVersion2));

        Console.WriteLine("Serializing the v2 object to a file. \n\n");
        FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Create);
        ser.WriteObject(fs, p2);
        fs.Close();
    }

    // Deserialize version 2 data to a version 1 object.
    static void WriteToVersion1(string path)
    {
        // Create the serializer using the version 1 type.
        DataContractSerializer ser =
            new DataContractSerializer(typeof(Person));

        FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);
        XmlDictionaryReader reader =
           XmlDictionaryReader.CreateTextReader(fs, new XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas());
        Console.WriteLine
            ("Deserializing v2 data to v1 object. \n\n");

        Person p1 = (Person)ser.ReadObject(reader, false);

        Console.WriteLine("V1 data has only a Name field.");
        Console.WriteLine("But the v2 data is stored in the ");
        Console.WriteLine("ExtensionData property. \n\n");
        Console.WriteLine("\t Name: {0} \n", p1.Name);

        fs.Close();

        // Change data in the object.
        p1.Name = "John";
        Console.WriteLine("Changed the Name value to 'John' ");
        Console.Write("and reserializing the object to version 2 \n\n");
        // Reserialize the object.
        fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Create);
        ser.WriteObject(fs, p1);
        fs.Close();
    }

    // Deserialize a version 2.0 object. 
    public static void ReadVersion2(string path)
    {
        FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);
        DataContractSerializer ser = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(PersonVersion2));

        Console.WriteLine("Deserializing new data to version 2 \n\n");
        PersonVersion2 p2 = (PersonVersion2)ser.ReadObject(fs);
        fs.Close();

        Console.WriteLine("The data includes the old ID field value. \n");
        Console.WriteLine("\t (New) Name: {0}", p2.Name);
        Console.WriteLine("\t ID: {0} \n", p2.ID);
    }
}

主要疑問是在代碼裏class PersonVersion2的部分，在原例子中，PersonVersion2也要實現接口IExtensibleDataObject，但是如果不實現這個接口的話，整個程序運行也沒問題，而且根據整個程序來看的話，好像也沒有實現的必要呢，有點不太理解。先標記一下，哪天理解了再說吧！