Improved extension methods support on procedures.

Drastically reduces procedure designer loading time.
DataStore proto support fully working and tested.

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Software/Visual_Studio/Tango.PMR/ExtensionMethods/IMessageExtensions.cs b/Software/Visual_Studio/Tango.PMR/ExtensionMethods/IMessageExtensions.cs
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+using Google.Protobuf;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+
+public static class IMessageExtensions
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Serializes this PMR message to byte array.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
+    /// <param name="message">The message.</param>
+    /// <returns></returns>
+    public static byte[] ToBytes<T>(this T message) where T : IMessage<T>
+    {
+        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
+        {
+            message.WriteTo(ms);
+            return ms.ToArray();
+        }
+    }
+}
+