.Net 8-bit Encoding

Question

I\'m working on serial port, transmitting and receiving data to some hardware at 8bit data. I would like to store it as string to facilitate comparison, and preset data are

Answer 1

You could use base64 encoding to convert from byte to string and back. No problems with code pages or weird characters that way, and it'll be more space-efficient than hex.

byte[] toEncode; 
string encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(toEncode);