Convert Byte[] (Byte Array) to String and ViceVersa

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The Encoding.GetBytes() method contains six overloads to encode all the characters into a sequence of bytes.

Convert Byte[]( Byte Array) to String

Here 'b' is the byte array

C#

    string strModified = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(b);

VB.NET

    Dim strModified As String = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(b)

Convert a String to Byte[] (Byte Array)

C#

    byte[] b = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(strOriginal);

VB.NET

    Dim b As Byte() = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(strOriginal)

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