System.Buffer and System.BitConverter Classes

Discovered System.Buffer class that can directly manipulate the bytes of an array class objects. All its members are static.

 
 int[] myarr1 = newint[5] {1,2,3,4,5};
 int[] myarr2=newint[10] {0,0,0,0,0,6,7,8,9,10};
               
 //here we are copying offset to offet as bytes
 Buffer.BlockCopy(myarr1,0,myarr2,0,20);

It has 4 members:

• BlockCopy - Copies a specified number of bytes from a source array starting at a particular offset to a destination array starting at a particular offset.
• ByteLength - Returns the number of bytes in the specified array.
• GetByte - Retrieves the byte at a specified location in a specified array.
• SetByte - Assigns a specified value to a byte at a particular location in a specified

System.BitConverter class - Converts base data types to an array of bytes, and an array of bytes to base data types. See 'SelfMarshalledStruct' in OpenNETCF.Net for a sample usage. Works with the System.Buffer class for serialising/deserialising data types to byte arrays.