NBitConverterI

NBitConverter I is a.NET class used to convert between numeric types and an array of bytes. It is used for converting between an integer and its hexadecimal or binary representation.

The class is an interface, which means it must be implemented by another class in order to be usable. It provides a single method, ToBytes, which converts an integer to a byte array, and two additional methods, Create, and CreateFromBytes.

The method ToBytes takes an integer and a range as parameters. It returns an array of bytes that represents the integer in the specified range. The class is typically used to represent a hexadecimal or binary number as a sequence of bytes.

The method Create is the inverse of ToBytes. It takes a byte array and returns the integer that it represents.

The method CreateFromBytes is similar to Create. It takes a byte array and returns the integer that it represents. Both the Create and CreateFromBytes methods throw an exception if the byte array has a length that is not a multiple of the size of the specified type.

The designers of the.NET Framework included NBitConverter I as a way to providing a common base class for the various numeric types that can be represented as a range of bytes.