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

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