Convert a string to a Byte Array in UTF8 encoding.
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using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
namespace LinkedIn.Utility
{
/// <summary>
/// A utilities class
/// </summary>
public static class Utilities
{
/// <summary>
/// Convert a string to a Byte Array in UTF8 encoding.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value">The xml string to convert.</param>
/// <returns>A byte Array of the string.</returns>
public static byte[] StringToUTF8ByteArray(string value)
{
UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(value);
return byteArray;
}
}
}