Convert to UCS2

Question

Is there any function in Vb.net (or C#) that encodes a string in UCS2?

Thanks

Answer 1

See Encoding.Unicode.

Given a .NET String, call Encoding.GetBytes to get a byte array representing that string encoded in UCS2.

Edit: In the context of System.Text.Encoding, Unicode = UTF-16. As Johannes points out, these are not the same thing in the presence of surrogates.