Get Bytes from Text Activity

Description:

Encodes all the characters in the specified string into a sequence of bytes.

Inheritance Hierarchy:

System.Object
  System.Activities.Activity
    System.Activities.CodeActivity
      Geocortex.Workflow.Activities.GetBytesFromText

Function:

This activity converts a text string to a byte array.

In a Workflow:

This activity provides a convenient way to obtain the byte data for a text value. This may be useful in conjunction with other activities, such as Write File, which require byte data as inputs.

This activity allows you to control the character encoding used when converting between a string and a byte array.

Properties:

Name	Description
In Arguments
Encoding	The character encoding. If not specified, the operating system's default encoding will be used. For example: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.ascii.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.unicode.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.utf8.aspx
Text	The input string containing the characters to encode.
Misc
Display Name	GetBytesFromText You can change the name of an activity to one that describes what it does. A descriptive name can make a workflow easier to interpret and maintain.
Out Arguments
Result	The result byte array.

Version Information:

Supported from: Geocortex Essentials 3.15.