Equivalent in C# of Python's “struct.pack/unpack”?

Question

I am a seasoned Python developer and have come to love a lot of its conveniences. I have actually known C# for some time but recently have gotten into some more advanced cod

Answer 1

BinaryWriter and BinaryReader will send arbitrary items to a byte array or read arbitrary items from a byte array

var str = new MemoryStream();
var bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
bw.Write(42);
bw.Write("hello");
...
var bytes = str.ToArray();