title: Is it possible to use google.protobuffer to serialize data without prefixing the length of each data field?
body: <p>By default, unless ive done something wrong, protobuf prefixes all data fields with the length of the data that follows. for example, if i do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class Program
  {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
          MessagePayload msg = new MessagePayload()
          {
              Message = "hello"
          };
  
          var bytes = new byte[8];
  
          var output = new CodedOutputStream(bytes);
  
          output.WriteMessage(msg);
  
          Console.WriteLine(CryptoBytes.ToHexStringLower(bytes));
  
          Console.ReadLine();
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it prints out:</p>
  
  <pre><code>07120568656c6c6f
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but what i want is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>0568656c6c6f
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is there a way to have protobuf do this somehow, without manually removing the length fields?  </p>