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It depends which encoding you want to use - the commoner ones being UTF-8, ASCII or Unicode.

In .NET all strings are stored in Unicode format (normally 2 bytes per character) and the following program shows how you can convert a string to a byte array and back again using this encoding:

using System;

using System.Text;

class Test

{

static void Main()

{

string s = "Anusha";

Encoding enc = Encoding.Unicode;

byte[] ba = enc.GetBytes(s);

foreach(byte b in ba) Console.Write("{0} ", b);

Console.WriteLine();

string t = enc.GetString(ba);

Console.WriteLine(t);
Console.ReadKey();

}

}

The output is:

65 0 110 0 117 0 115 0 104 0 97 0

Anusha

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Vulpes13y ago
It depends which encoding you want to use - the commoner ones being UTF-8, ASCII or Unicode.

In .NET all strings are stored in Unicode format (normally 2 bytes per character) and the following program shows how you can convert a string to a byte array and back again using this encoding:

using System;
using System.Text;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
string s = "Anusha";
Encoding enc = Encoding.Unicode;
byte[] ba = enc.GetBytes(s);
foreach(byte b in ba) Console.Write("{0} ", b);
Console.WriteLine();
string t = enc.GetString(ba);
Console.WriteLine(t);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}

The output is:

65 0 110 0 117 0 115 0 104 0 97 0
Anusha
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Pankaj Pandey13y ago
string x = "";
byte t = Convert.ToByte(x);

try it
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