Initializes a new instance of the PofHelper class

Determine the minimum size (in bytes) of the IEEE754 decimal type that would be capable of holding the passed value.

Validate date information.

Validate a day-time interval.

Verify that the number of elements is valid.

Validate a reference identifier to make sure it is in a valid range.

Validate time information.

Validate a time interval.

Check the specified timezone offset.

Validate a type identifier.

Validate a year-month interval.

Determine if the specified byte array contains a packed 32-bit integer.

Convert the passed number to the specified type.

Decode an integer value from one of the reserved single-byte combined type and value indicators.

Encode an integer value into one of the reserved single-byte combined type and value indicators.

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Format a date in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

Returns a .NET Type based on the POF type identifer.

Returns an identifier that represents the .NET type of the specified object.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Return an identifier that represents the POF type of the specified type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Determine if the given type can be represented as an intrinsic POF type.

Determine the number of bytes required to encode the given integer using a packed 32-bit format.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to a char.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to a Decimal.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to a Double.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to an Int32.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to an Int64.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to an RawInt128.

Read a value of the specified encoding from the POF stream and convert it to a Single.

Read a Char value from the passed DataReader.

Read a literal DateTime value from a POF stream.

Read a literal DateTime value from a POF stream.

Read Decimal value from DataReader.

Read a RawTime value from a POF stream.

Read a UTC DateTime value from a POF stream.

Skip the specified number of packed integers in the passed POF stream.

Within the POF stream, skip the next POF value of the specified type.

Within the POF stream, skip the next POF value.

Returns a String that represents the current Object.

Write a date value to a DataWriter object.

Write a Decimal to the passed DataWriter stream as a decimal value.

Write a time value to a DataWriter object.

The default BigDecimal value.

An empty Binary value.

An empty array of bytes.

An empty array of bytes.

An empty array of chars.

An empty (and immutable) collection.

An empty array of doubles.

An empty array of shorts.

An empty array of ints.

An empty array of longs.

An empty array of objects.

An empty array of floats.