https://github.com/topas/varintbitconverter

Varint encoding and decoding for .NET
https://github.com/topas/varintbitconverter

c-sharp encoding google-protocol-buffers nuget

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Varint encoding and decoding for .NET

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/topas/varintbitconverter
• Owner: topas
• License: other
• Created: 2012-04-22T12:54:00.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-04-22T19:56:58.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-05T06:51:44.514Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: c-sharp, encoding, google-protocol-buffers, nuget
• Language: PowerShell
• Size: 107 KB
• Stars: 23
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
About VarintBitConverter

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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:

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* method GetBytes(...) converts .NET type to varint byte array. 

* To...(byte[]) method convert varint byte array to .NET type

Libraries & Tools

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This project is using: 

* xUnit testing library: http://xunit.codeplex.com/

* Psake build automation tool: https://github.com/JamesKovacs/psake

Requirements

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* .NET Framework 4.0

* PowerShell for running Psake

License

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Project is released under BSD license.