convertion from string to byte[]

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The output from SQL Query is in string(base64 converted) format.The objective 
is to convert the string to byte[]. How can I achieve this ?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nprasad....@gmail.com on 2 May 2013 at 3:43

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Dapper is intended to be a bridge to your storage; if you stored the data as a 
string, dapper will help you retrieve it as a string - so I suggest simply 
*treat it as a string* at the POCO layer. Then *completely separate to dapper*, 
just base-64 decode it as some point.

If you really really want to do it in one go, you could use properties to do it 
on-the-fly, for example:

    public string Value {get;set;}
    public byte[] ValueBytes {
        get { return Value == null ? null : Convert.FromBase64String(Value); }
        set { Value = value == null ? null : Convert.ToBase64String(value); }
    }

Original comment by marc.gravell on 2 May 2013 at 11:43

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