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I just want to share a small and basic application to do text to binary conversion. Like I do, sometimes I feel I really want to make a greeting really in different way that people may do that by putting plain words or messages in their greeting. But now, you can actually create a totally different way of doing a greeting, that is by using binary string. Alright, you may say what the hell is that?, why am I doing that for?, how will people understand the words in binary? It’s all up to you. Well, for me, I don’t really care what people will think about my messages that are written in binary strings. As long as I can get what I want. That is more than just enough.

So, here we go. Basically, the way converting text to binary and back, is very simple. I use MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 / Framework v2.0. It converts each letter on a text into ASCII decimal and then breaks it into 8 bit binary strings.

public string stringToBinary(string sData)
        {
            int bit = 8;
            byte[] bData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sData);
            string binData = "";
            foreach (byte b in bData)
            {
                string sBinary = Convert.ToString(GetBase(2, b));
                if (sBinary.Length < bit)
                    sBinary = sBinary.PadLeft(bit, Convert.ToChar("0"));
                binData = binData + sBinary;
            }
            return binData;
        }

That snippet shows you how to do the text to binary conversion. Anyway, you can just download, run and modify it as you want. Now, I am going to do the reverse conversion.
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