BinaryFormatter is a byte serialized/deserializer for .NET Core, created for Distributed Cache Platform - Kronos. After few days of development, Protobuf-Net (contract base serializer, fork of Google Protobuf) has announcement support for .NET Core.

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• char
• (s)byte
• (u)short
• (u)int
• (u)long
• float
• double
• bool
• decimal
• DateTime
• TimeSpan
• byte[]
• classes
• collections
  • IEnumarable
  • IDictionary
  • LinkedList
• structures
• guid
• uri
• enum
• KeyValuePair
• BigInteger

• anonymous types
• HashSet
• Array[,], Array[,,], Array[,,,] types
• DateTimeOffset
• Nullable

$ Install-Package BinaryFormatter

var converter = new BinaryConverter();
byte[] byteArray = converter.Serialize(model);

var converter = new BinaryConverter();
ViewModel obj = converter.Deserialize<ViewModel>(byteArray);

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so we don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

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