Re: Google protocol buffers

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Now I haven't done that much research into Google's protocol buffers,
> > but from first blush, this seems similar in spirit to Thrift[1], which
> > is a lightweight, cross-platform binary serialization method, and works
> > with C# (among many other languages).  Maybe this warrants a look as
> > well?
> 
> Yeah, good point, it's definitely worth taking a look at this as well.
>  Unfortunately it also doesn't support C# out of the box, though.

Check out Thrift SVN -- the C# support was contributed by Imeem.  By
default it's for C# 3.0 only, but about 30 seconds of hacking can make
it work with C# 2.0.

Best,

-Brad