C# - Convert byte[] to String in Windows 7 Phone

Question

Hi I am trying to get device id of windows 7 phone using following code

 byte[] result = null;
 String id = null;
 object uniqueId;
 if (DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("DeviceUniqueId", out uniqueId))
     result = (byte[])uniqueId;

Problem is that I need this result in String. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Best Regards

Answer 1

System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(myBytes, 0, myBytes.Length);

I haven't checked but I suppose this method is available on Windows Phone.

Answer 2

string myString = Convert.ToBase64String(result);

This function is available on the windows phone 7 platform

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dhx0d524(VS.95).aspx

And if you need the byte array again, just ask for it like this.

byte[] byteArray = Convert.FromBase64String(myString);

edit: Curt provided the correct way to convert back to a byte array