Bytes in VB.NET

' String to byte


' Native C# strings are unicode encoded
Dim StringMessage As String = "Hello World How Are you? Pi π Yen ￥"

' We can show the characters on the command line
Console.WriteLine("{0}", StringMessage)

' We can convert directly a byte array, but some information is lost
Dim ASCII As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()
Dim BytesMessage As [Byte]() = ASCII.GetBytes(StringMessage)

' Byte back to string

Dim BytesMessage As [Byte]()
' Your message
Dim ASCII As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()
Dim StringMessage As [String] = ASCII.GetString(BytesMessage)