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[bisnes_niko]

Hi, I been having a pain in the butt to find out how could I load and read bytes into string the notepad way.

I know already howto bind data into an existing file.

This is how I would like to get it:

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All you gotta do is to find how can I load data into strings notepad way. Thank you, bye.

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[mandai]

You could encode it into a hex string:

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        Dim bytes As Byte() = IO.File.ReadAllBytes("file.exe")
        Dim encoded As String = ""
        For i As Integer = 0 To bytes.Length - 1
            encoded += bytes(i).ToString("X2")
        Next
        MsgBox(encoded)

Then to convert that string back to binary you can use:

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        Dim newBytes As List(Of Byte) = New List(Of Byte)
        For i As Integer = 0 To encoded.Length - 1 Step 2
            Dim current As Byte = Byte.Parse(encoded.Substring(i, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier)
            newBytes.Add(current)
        Next
        Dim decoded As Byte() = newBytes.ToArray()

15/6/11 Edit: Improved efficiency.

[bisnes_niko]

I'm sorry, but thats not I need. I need to read bytes into for an example textbox like MS Notepad does. Thats how I could find & read data I put there like Hello World

I already know how to bind text end of the file and it would still work

[mandai]

Notepad displays the file as a character array, not a byte array.