Converting object to string.

[bryja_klaudiusz[at]poczta[dot]fm]

Hi,

How to convert object to string? I try procedure like this (when I have
byte array I convert it to string):

public byte[] ObjectToByteArray(Object obj)
{
MemoryStream fs = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();

try
{
formatter.Serialize(fs, obj);
return fs.ToArray() ;
}
catch(SerializationException e)
{
return null;
}
finally
{
fs.Close();
}
}

and it's not working properly.

For example - I have to finally get string "UG " but I get
"\0
\0\0\0????
\0\0\0\0\0\0\0
\0\0\0\f\0\0\0554720202020\v" from
object with byte array 53, 53, 52, 55, 50, 48, 50, 48, 50, 48, 50, 48.

This object is generated from dbf file and I'm using Microsoft Visual
Fox Pro driver and odbc dataset and dataadapter. The worst think is that
in dataset I have to fields which are characters fields as example above
and for this field everything working ok.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Bryja,

Have a look at the text.encoding class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ef/html/frlrfsystemtextencodingclasstopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor