On 2004-10-07, PHil Coveney <PHilCoveney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to support a file format that stores integers with the MSB first
> and the LSB last. When I use
> BinaryWriter aWriter = new BinaryWriter(aFileStream, Encoding.ASCII);
> int someValue = 1;
> aWriter.WriteInt32(someValue);
> the byte stream that appears in the file is
> 01 00 00 00
>
> What I need for this file format is
> 00 00 00 01
>
> There does not appear to be anything in Marshal that supports this. Does
> anyone have a recommendation?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

PHil Coveney <PHilCoveney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I need to support a file format that stores integers with the MSB first
> and the LSB last. When I use
> BinaryWriter aWriter = new BinaryWriter(aFileStream, Encoding.ASCII);
> int someValue = 1;
> aWriter.WriteInt32(someValue);
> the byte stream that appears in the file is
> 01 00 00 00
>
> What I need for this file format is
> 00 00 00 01
>
> There does not appear to be anything in Marshal that supports this. Does
> anyone have a recommendation?

"Tom Shelton" <tom@YOUKNOWTHEDRILLmtogden.com> wrote in message
news:%23UDzUvDrEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> On 2004-10-07, PHil Coveney <PHilCoveney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to support a file format that stores integers with the MSB
>> first
>> and the LSB last. When I use
>> BinaryWriter aWriter = new BinaryWriter(aFileStream, Encoding.ASCII);
>> int someValue = 1;
>> aWriter.WriteInt32(someValue);
>> the byte stream that appears in the file is
>> 01 00 00 00
>>
>> What I need for this file format is
>> 00 00 00 01
>>
>> There does not appear to be anything in Marshal that supports this.
>> Does
>> anyone have a recommendation?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>
> You could try using System.Net.IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder to convert
> the integer first....
>
> using System;
> using System.Net;
>
> public class test
> {
> public static void Main ()
> {
> int i = 1;
> int j = IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder (i);
>
> Console.WriteLine (BitConverter.ToString (BitConverter.GetBytes (i)));
> Console.WriteLine (BitConverter.ToString (BitConverter.GetBytes (j)));
> }
> }
>
> --
> Tom Shelton [MVP]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:43:01 -0700, PHil Coveney wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to support a file format that stores integers with the MSB first
> and the LSB last. When I use
> BinaryWriter aWriter = new BinaryWriter(aFileStream, Encoding.ASCII);
> int someValue = 1;
> aWriter.WriteInt32(someValue);
> the byte stream that appears in the file is
> 01 00 00 00
>
> What I need for this file format is
> 00 00 00 01
>
> There does not appear to be anything in Marshal that supports this. Does
> anyone have a recommendation?
>
> Thanks in advance,

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

> PHil Coveney <PHilCoveney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I need to support a file format that stores integers with the MSB first
> > and the LSB last. When I use
> > BinaryWriter aWriter = new BinaryWriter(aFileStream, Encoding.ASCII);
> > int someValue = 1;
> > aWriter.WriteInt32(someValue);
> > the byte stream that appears in the file is
> > 01 00 00 00
> >
> > What I need for this file format is
> > 00 00 00 01
> >
> > There does not appear to be anything in Marshal that supports this. Does
> > anyone have a recommendation?
>
> You could use my EndianBinaryWriter which allows you to specify
> endianness:
>
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/miscutil
>
> --
> Jon Skeet - <skeet@pobox.com>
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