Example surrogate class for protobuf-net

MyNameValueInfoSurrogate.cs

[DataContract]
public class MyNameValueInfoSurrogate 
{
        //string is serializable so we'll just copy this property back and forth
	[DataMember(Order = 1)]
	public string Name { get; set; } 

        //byte[] is serializable so we'll need to convert object to byte[] and back again
	[DataMember(Order = 2)]
	public byte[] Value { get; set; }

	public static implicit operator MyNameValueInfo(MyNameValueInfoSuggorage suggorage)
	{
		return suggorage == null ? null : new MyNameValueInfo
		{
			Name = suggorage.Name,
			Value = Deserialize(suggorage.Value)
		};
	}

	public static implicit operator MyNameValueInfoSuggorage(MyNameValueInfo source)
	{
		return source == null ? null : new MyNameValueInfoSuggorage
		{
			Name = source.Name,
			Value = Serialize(source.Value)
		};
	}

	private static byte[] Serialize(object o)
	{
		if (o == null)
			return null;

		using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
		{
			var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
			formatter.Serialize(ms, o);
			return ms.ToArray();
		}
	}

	private static object Deserialize(byte[] b)
	{
		if (b == null)
			return null;
			
		using (var ms = new MemoryStream(b))
		{
			var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
			return formatter.Deserialize(ms);
		}
	}
}