Which .Net-compatible architectures are not little-endian?

Question

The BitConverter class has a field IsLittleEndian which, according to the documentation:

Indicates the byte order (\"endianness\") in which data is st

Answer 1

The XBox360 is BigEndian. Robert Unoki from Microsoft has a good blog post about the importance of checking the IsLittleEndian flag - and the bugs that occurred in porting the CLR to XBox360 when the Microsoft developers failed to do so.