Creating Read and Write Methods with IBinarySerialize

When you choose UserDefined serialization format, you also must implement the IBinarySerialize interface and create your own Read and Write methods. The following procedures from the Currency UDT use the System.IO.BinaryReader and System.IO.BinaryWriter to read from and write to the UDT

// IBinarySerialize methods
// The binary layout is as follow:
//    Bytes 0 - 19:Culture name, padded to the right 
//    with null characters, UTF-16 encoded
//    Bytes 20+:Decimal value of money
// If the culture name is empty, the currency is null.
public void Write(System.IO.BinaryWriter w)
{
    if (this.IsNull)
    {
        w.Write(nullMarker);
        w.Write((decimal)0);
        return;
    }

    if (cultureName.Length > cultureNameMaxSize)
    {
        throw new ApplicationException(string.Format(
            CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, 
            "{0} is an invalid culture name for currency as it is too long.", 
            cultureNameMaxSize));
    }

    String paddedName = cultureName.PadRight(cultureNameMaxSize, '\0');
    for (int i = 0; i < cultureNameMaxSize; i++)
    {
        w.Write(paddedName[i]);
    }

    // Normalize decimal value to two places
    currencyValue = Decimal.Floor(currencyValue * 100) / 100;
    w.Write(currencyValue);
}
public void Read(System.IO.BinaryReader r)
{
    char[] name = r.ReadChars(cultureNameMaxSize);
    int stringEnd = Array.IndexOf(name, '\0');

    if (stringEnd == 0)
    {
        cultureName = null;
        return;
    }

    cultureName = new String(name, 0, stringEnd);
    currencyValue = r.ReadDecimal();
}