convert bytes to long value

[Paul]

I need to convert 4 bytes into a long. In C I would do long l = *(long
*)&buffer[10]; buffer is an array of bytes read from a file. What's the
C# syntax?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Use the System.BitConverter class to convert the array of bytes to an Int64
value.

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