Is there a less painful way to GetBytes for a buffer not starting at 0?

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Published on 2010-03-26T21:56:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 22:03 UTC
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I am having to deal with raw bites in a project and I need to basically do something like this

byte[] ToBytes(){
  byte[] buffer=new byte[somelength];
  byte[] tmp=new byte[2];
  tmp=BitConverter.GetBytes(SomeShort);
  buffer[0]=tmp[0];
  buffer[1]=tmp[1];
  tmp=BitConverter.GetBytes(SomeOtherShort);
  buffer[2]=tmp[0];
  buffer[3]=tmp[1];
}

I feel like this is so wrong yet I can't find any better way of doing it. Is there an easier way?

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