Convert Strings to Byte Arrays and Back in .NET

Used the System.Text.Encoder namespace. This encoding only supports character values between U+0000 (0) and U+007F (127). Characters outside that range will not be translated correctly and will result in a loss of data.

    Imports System.Text.Encoder

    '
    ' Convert from string to Byte Array.
    '
    Dim oEncoder As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
    Dim bytArray() As Byte = oEncoder.GetBytes(strMyString)
    '
    ' And back again.
    '
    Console.WriteLine(oEncoder.GetString(bytArray))