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Varint encoding and decoding for .NET

About VarintBitConverter

System.VarintBitConverter is static utility class very similar to BitConverter (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.bitconverter.aspx).

Varint is 128 base encoding for numbers (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#varints) used by Protocol Buffers and other projects. For signed numbers is using ZigZag encoding.

Usage:

  • method GetBytes(...) converts .NET type to varint byte array.
  • To...(byte[]) method convert varint byte array to .NET type

Libraries & Tools

This project is using:

  • xUnit testing library: http://xunit.codeplex.com/
  • Psake build automation tool: https://github.com/JamesKovacs/psake

Requirements

  • .NET Framework 4.0
  • PowerShell for running Psake

License

Project is released under BSD license.