[dba-VB] FW: JSON and XML in memory serialization sample code (Part 3.1)

From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:13 AM
To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.'
Subject: FW: JSON and XML in memory serialization sample code (Part 3)

 

Continued from Part 2.

 

   /// <summary>

    /// Converts strings to byte arrays and vice versa

    /// </summary>

    public class StringToBytes

    {

        /// <summary>

        /// Converts a Byte Array of Unicode values (UTF-8 encoded) to a
complete String.

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="characters">Unicode Byte Array to be converted to
String</param>

        /// <returns>String converted from Unicode Byte Array</returns>

        public static String UTF8ByteArrayToString(Byte[] characters)

        {

            UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();

            String constructedString = encoding.GetString(characters);

            return (constructedString);

        }

 

        /// <summary>

        /// Converts the String to UTF8 Byte array and is used in De
serialization

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="pXmlString"></param>

        /// <returns></returns>

        public static Byte[] StringToUTF8ByteArray(String pXmlString)

        {

            UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();

            Byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(pXmlString);

            return byteArray;

        }

    }

 

To be continued in Part 3.2..