https://jen20.dev/tags/dotnet/ Recent content in Dotnet on jen20.dev Hugo en-gb hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:00:00 +0000 https://jen20.dev/post/reading-dotnet-strings-from-go/ Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:00:00 +0000hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) https://jen20.dev/post/reading-dotnet-strings-from-go/ <p>I recently had the need (for a side project) to be able to read a file written from a .NET application using the <code>BinaryWriter</code> class from an application written using Go. The MSDN documentation was somewhat vague on the format in which strings were written, but it turns out to be a LEB128 encoded length prefix and then the UTF8 bytes which make up the string.</p>