/// <summary>
/// Serializes a SystemInformation object.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="info">the SystemInformation object</param>
/// <returns>a serialized representation of the info object</returns>
public static byte[] Serialize(SystemInformation info)
{
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter bFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
bFormatter.Serialize(memStream, info);
return memStream.ToArray();
}
/// <summary>
/// Generates a system information objet from the given packet.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="inPacket">contains the system information in a raw, serialized format</param>
public static SystemInformation ReadFromPacket(PacketIn inPacket)
{
SystemInformation info = new SystemInformation();
inPacket.SkipBytes(1); // 0
try
{
info.Version = new ClientVersion(inPacket.ReadBytes(5));
info.Architecture = inPacket.ReadReversedString();
info.OS = inPacket.ReadReversedString();
info.Locale = inPacket.ReadReversedPascalString(4);
info.TimeZone = BitConverter.ToUInt32(inPacket.ReadBytes(4), 0);
info.IPAddress = new XmlIPAddress(inPacket.ReadBytes(4));
}
catch
{
}
return info;
}