Can RSACryptoServiceProvider (.NET's RSA) use SHA256 for encryption (not signing) instead of SHA1?

Question

When encrypting, can RSACryptoServiceProvider (or any other RSA encryptor available from .NET) use SHA256 instead of SHA1?

SHA1 appears to be hard coded with no way

Answer 1

Bounty Castle C# was updated to 1.7 after this question was asked and answered. For future reference you might consider it, it adds supports a lot of crypto algorithms, hashes, signatures that Bouncy Castle makes available for Java. Hit the link, look for 'Release Notes for 1.7' and 'Current feature list:'.