.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

System.BitConverter

This class has a number of methods that convert from raw (unmanaged) data to managed data types. Listing B.1 shows an example of converting from a byte array to an integer (bitconverter.cs).

Listing B.1. System.BitConverter Sample

static void Main(string [] args) { byte [] rawData = new byte [] {1,2,3,4} ; int convertedInt = BitConverter.ToInt32(rawData, 0); Console.WriteLine("Raw data: {0} {1} {2} {3} ", rawData[0], rawData[1], rawData[2], rawData[3]); Console.WriteLine("Converted data: {0} 0x{0:X} ", convertedInt); }

The output for this application looks like this:

Raw data: 1234
Converted data: 67305985 0x4030201