I need to covert DateTime Variables into a byte array but all of the
conversion methods do not appear to handle the DateTime type. Is
there a generic way to convert any property or object into a byte
array?

Thanks

David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I need to covert DateTime Variables into a byte array but all of the
> conversion methods do not appear to handle the DateTime type. Is
> there a generic way to convert any property or object into a byte
> array?

Well, there's serialization - but for a DateTime, the easiest thing
would be to use the Ticks property to convert it to a long, and then
convert that into a byte array.

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David,

Because that the datetime is a value, that exist as ticks in the format
long, has it not such much sense to place that in a byteArray. Probably you
want a byte array of a ToString converted format. However that is than
depending from the way as you want it in that byte array.

I hope this helps

Cor

I never considered ticks! I tried a string, but when you convert
back, you loose the time portion!

Thanks

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:52:44 -0000, Jon Skeet [C# MVP]
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I need to covert DateTime Variables into a byte array but all of the
>> conversion methods do not appear to handle the DateTime type. Is
>> there a generic way to convert any property or object into a byte
>> array?
>
>Well, there's serialization - but for a DateTime, the easiest thing
>would be to use the Ticks property to convert it to a long, and then
>convert that into a byte array.