Converting SQL Server varBinary data into string C#

Question

I need help figuring out how to convert data that comes in from a SQL Server table column that is set as varBinary(max) into a string in or

Answer 1

It really depends on which encoding was used when you originally converted from string to binary:

 byte[] binaryString = (byte[])reader[1];

 // if the original encoding was ASCII
 string x = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(binaryString);

 // if the original encoding was UTF-8
 string y = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(binaryString);

 // if the original encoding was UTF-16
 string z = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(binaryString);

 // etc