Asynchronous BinaryReader and BinaryWriter in .Net?

Question

I\'d like to read and write bytes and structured value types, asynchronously, without having to worry about decoders and byte-shifting: is there something out there that wou

Answer 1

I've created versions of those classes that are async: https://github.com/ronnieoverby/AsyncBinaryReaderWriter

Example usage:

async Task Main()
{
    using var ms = new MemoryStream();
    using var writer = new AsyncBinaryWriter(ms);
    await writer.WriteAsync("today is: ");
    await writer.WriteAsync(DateTime.Today.Ticks);
    await writer.FlushAsync();

    ms.Position = 0;

    using var reader = new AsyncBinaryReader(ms);
    var preamble = await reader.ReadStringAsync();
    var payload = new DateTime(await reader.ReadInt64Async());

    Console.WriteLine(preamble + payload);
}

All of the same read/write methods present on the BCL binary reader/writer classes are present.