First pass at benchmarking for C#
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+#region Copyright notice and license
+// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
+// Copyright 2019 Google Inc.  All rights reserved.
+// https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf
+//
+// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+// met:
+//
+//     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+// notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+//
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+// A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
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+#endregion
+
+using Benchmarks;
+using Google.Protobuf.Reflection;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
+
+namespace Google.Protobuf.Benchmarks
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The configuration for a single serialization test, loaded from a dataset.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class SerializationConfig
+    {
+        private static readonly Dictionary<string, MessageParser> parsersByMessageName = 
+            typeof(SerializationBenchmark).Assembly.GetTypes()
+                .Where(t => typeof(IMessage).IsAssignableFrom(t))
+                .ToDictionary(
+                    t => ((MessageDescriptor) t.GetProperty("Descriptor", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public).GetValue(null)).FullName,
+                    t => ((MessageParser) t.GetProperty("Parser", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public).GetValue(null)));
+
+        public MessageParser Parser { get; }
+        public IEnumerable<ByteString> Payloads { get; }
+        public string Name { get; }
+
+        public SerializationConfig(string resource)
+        {
+            var data = LoadData(resource);
+            var dataset = BenchmarkDataset.Parser.ParseFrom(data);
+
+            if (!parsersByMessageName.TryGetValue(dataset.MessageName, out var parser))
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentException($"No parser for message {dataset.MessageName} in this assembly");
+            }
+            Parser = parser;
+            Payloads = dataset.Payload;
+            Name = dataset.Name;
+        }
+
+        private static byte[] LoadData(string resource)
+        {
+            using (var stream = typeof(SerializationBenchmark).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream($"Google.Protobuf.Benchmarks.{resource}"))
+            {
+                if (stream == null)
+                {
+                    throw new ArgumentException($"Unable to load embedded resource {resource}");
+                }
+                var copy = new MemoryStream();
+                stream.CopyTo(copy);
+                return copy.ToArray();
+            }
+        }
+
+        public override string ToString() => Name;
+    }
+}