Introduction to Binary Data Programming Guide for Cocoa

Explains how to create and use Cocoa data objects, object-oriented wrappers for byte buffers.

Organization of This Document

The following article explains how data objects work:

Data Objects describes how data objects are used as wrappers for byte buffers.

The following articles cover common tasks:

Working With Binary Data explains how to create and use binary data objects.

Working With Mutable Binary Data explains how to modify the bytes in mutable binary data objects.