Interesting, similar functions in the Java world are always big endian: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html#toByteArray%28%29 ht

Interesting, similar functions in the Java world are always big endian: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html#toByteArray%28%29 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/math/BigIntege... Seems like a rather poor decision on Microsoft's part. Fortunately rather few things interact with data this way anyways, most serialization formats are text based or include endian information.