C# equivalent of python's struct.pack
binary, bit-packing, c#, struct
Solution
The closest equivalent would probably be to use `BinaryWriter` writing into a `MemoryStream`, or `BitConverter` for a one-off conversion of a single value into a byte array.
If you want to control the endianness of that, you can use my EndianBinaryWriter/EndianBitConverter from MiscUtil. One extra feature of my `EndianBitConverter` is that you can convert into a specific portion of an existing array, which would help you if you wanted to port `struct.pack` yourself.
Problem
Is there a library for C# that allows similar functionality to python's `struct` from the standard library? One can emulate the struct library quite closely with real aligned structs. But I didn't find yet any way to directly control the endianess in C#'s structs (the C#'s structs seems to be geared more towards COM interop, and less toward general purpose binary packing).