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I was trying to convert string to Byte. The value of the string was updated by reading XML

  string MyValue= Node.Attributes["Value"].Value.ToUpper().ToString(); 
  MyValue = "NETWORK";
  MyObject.MyValue= Convert.ToByte(MyValue);

  Even tried with using Encoding Option

But I was getting error as "Input string was not in a correct format"

leppie
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channa
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    7 char string will never be fit into one byte – Perfect28 Apr 08 '15 at 13:07
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    I think you misunderstand how `Convert.ToByte` works. It doesn't do encoding stuff at all. – Soner Gönül Apr 08 '15 at 13:07
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    Not clear what you are asking. Not clear what you want to do. Not clear what `MyObject` is. – xanatos Apr 08 '15 at 13:07
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    possible duplicate of [Converting a string to byte-array without using an encoding (byte-by-byte)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/472906/converting-a-string-to-byte-array-without-using-an-encoding-byte-by-byte) – irreal Apr 08 '15 at 13:07

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The ToByte conversion will only convert a string representation of a number into bytes, eg this will work:

var testString = "1";

var result = Convert.ToByte(testString);

but this will not

var testString = "One";

var result = Convert.ToByte(testString);

Try something like this

Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("NETWORK");
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Use one of the encodings in System.Text such as ASCII:

        byte[] bytes = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.Convert("my string");
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