Adding binary saving and loading to MLContext.Data

src/Microsoft.ML.Data/DataLoadSave/Binary/BinaryLoaderSaverCatalog.cs

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+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+using System.IO;
+using Microsoft.ML.Runtime;
+using Microsoft.ML.Runtime.Data;
+using Microsoft.ML.Runtime.Data.IO;
+
+namespace Microsoft.ML
+{
+    public static class BinaryLoaderSaverCatalog
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Read a data view from a binary file using <see cref="BinaryLoader"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="catalog">The catalog.</param>
+        /// <param name="args">The arguments to binary reader.</param>
+        /// <param name="path"></param>
+        public static IDataView ReadFromBinaryFile(this DataOperations catalog,
+            BinaryLoader.Arguments args, string path)
+        {
+            Contracts.CheckNonEmpty(path, nameof(path));
+
+            var env = catalog.GetEnvironment();
+
+            var reader = new BinaryLoader(env, args, path);
+            return reader;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Save the data view as binary.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="catalog">The catalog.</param>
+        /// <param name="data">The data view to save.</param>
+        /// <param name="stream">The stream to write to.</param>
+        /// <param name="keepHidden">Whether to keep hidden columns in the dataset.</param>
+        public static void SaveAsBinary(this DataOperations catalog, IDataView data, Stream stream,
+            bool keepHidden = false)
+        {
+            Contracts.CheckValue(catalog, nameof(catalog));
+            Contracts.CheckValue(data, nameof(data));
+            Contracts.CheckValue(stream, nameof(stream));
+
+            var env = catalog.GetEnvironment();
+            var saver = new BinarySaver(env, new BinarySaver.Arguments());
+
+            using (var ch = env.Start("Saving data"))
+                DataSaverUtils.SaveDataView(ch, saver, data, stream, keepHidden);
+        }
+    }
+}