System.VarintBitConverter is static utility class very similar to BitConverter (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.bitconverter.aspx).

Varint is 128 base encoding for numbers (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#varints) used by Protocol Buffers and other projects. For signed numbers is using ZigZag encoding.

• method GetBytes(...) converts .NET type to varint byte array.
• To...(byte[]) method convert varint byte array to .NET type

This project is using:

• xUnit testing library: http://xunit.codeplex.com/
• Psake build automation tool: https://github.com/JamesKovacs/psake

• .NET Framework 4.0
• PowerShell for running Psake

Project is released under BSD license.