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[Baqs]

Hi After searching for a while I have been unable to find the equivalent of the BitConverter class in NETMF. I am totally new to NETMF programming so until now I assumed there was an equivalent class somewhere because I find it hard to believe that an embedded networked device does not have support for byte ordering to transmit/receive binary data. But after reading a few articles and browsing the .NET Micro Framework Platform SDK I am becoming convinced that there is no such class. Before I write my own class using pointers, which seems as elegant as putting a set of bicycle tires on an F1 car, I want to make sure that I am not missing something. So my question is Is there an equivalent of the BitConverter class in .NET Micro Framework, i.e. is there a class which will let me access the bytes of an int, float, etc, as an array of bytes?

[H07R0D]

I've never seen it around, but that's just because Bit Shifting in general is pretty straight forward.
I don't see any advantage to wrapping extremely simple commands, especially when encapsulation can be costly at times.

If you want to access individual bits, you could do something like this:

public static class IntExtensions
{
  public static int SetBit(this int _val, int _pos)
  {
    _val |= (0x01 << _pos);
    return _val;
  }
}

This would allow you to extend the Int class to do some simple bit set operations.
You could continue on with whatever else you would need.

I just do the bit shifting in the routines where it's needed as opposed to extending a class.