Using structs in C# to read data

Question

Say I have a struct defined as such

struct Student
{
  int age;
  int height;
  char[] name[12];
}

When I\'m reading a binary file, it looks so

Answer 1

There is not, AFAIK, a low-level direct-layout struct reader built into .NET. You would want want to look at BinaryReader, reading each field in turn? Basically, ReadInt32() twice, and ReadChars(). Pay particular attention to the encoding of the character data (ASCII? UTF8? UTF-16?) and the endianness of the integers.

Personally, I'd look more at using a dedicated cross-platform serializer!