Convert a 2-dimensional array to bytes, and then back

[Cross]

I am building a client-server application. When the clients gets the data
from the server, the data is received as a byte array. The server works with
data in 2-dimentional arrays (recordsets received from SQL Server, could be
integers, float, string dates...) stored as the data type objects. So I need
to convert the arrays to bytes on the server, and then back to the orginal
2-dimensional array on the client side. What is the easiest/fastes way to do
this?

[Louis Somers]

Cross schreef:

I am building a client-server application. When the clients gets the data
from the server, the data is received as a byte array. The server works with
data in 2-dimentional arrays (recordsets received from SQL Server, could be
integers, float, string dates...) stored as the data type objects. So I need
to convert the arrays to bytes on the server, and then back to the orginal
2-dimensional array on the client side. What is the easiest/fastes way to do
this?

I think you might find something usefull in the
System.Runtime.Serialization namespace.

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System.Bitconverter might be able to help. You'll probably need a loop or two.

"Cross" wrote:

I am building a client-server application. When the clients gets the data
from the server, the data is received as a byte array. The server works with
data in 2-dimentional arrays (recordsets received from SQL Server, could be
integers, float, string dates...) stored as the data type objects. So I need
to convert the arrays to bytes on the server, and then back to the orginal
2-dimensional array on the client side. What is the easiest/fastes way to do
this?