The Ignite.Binary class extends the type byte[] and all primitive data types, whereby these can simply be converted into a byte[] and a byte[] into one of the primitive data types.

The following data types can be used:

byte
ushort
uint
ulong

sbyte
short
int
long

nint
nuint

float
double
decimal

bool
char
string

To call the Bytes function, you can use:

var bytes_int = Ignite.Binary.Bytes (100); // bytes_int now contains the bytes of the int value "100", which looks like this: 100-0-0-0
var bytes_string = Ignite.Binary.Bytes ("Hello World!"); // bytes_string now contains the bytes of the int value "100", which looks like this: 72-101-108-108-111-32-87-111-114-108-100-33

To call the Convert class, you can use:

var bytes_int = Ignite.Binary.Bytes (100);
var bytes_string = Ignite.Binary.Bytes ("Hello World!");

var value_int = Ignite.Binary.Convert<int> (bytes_int); // this will convert the byte array to an int
var value_string = Ignite.Binary.Convert<string> (bytes_string); // this will convert the byte array to an string

To use the short form of the Bytes and Convert function you can write:

using Ignite.Binary;

var bytes_int = 100.Bytes ();
var bytes_string = "Hello World!".Bytes (); 

var value_int = bytes_int.Convert<int> ();
var value_string = bytes_string.Convert<string> ();

The format for Bytes is:

Ignite.Binary.Bytes (VALUE);

// or

using Ignite.Binary;

VALUE.Bytes ();

The format for Convert is:

Ignite.Binary.Convert<TYPE> (BYTE_ARRAY);

// or

using Ignite.Binary;

BYTE_ARRAY.Convert<TYPE> ();