How do I encode and decode a base64 string?

Question

1. How do I return a base64 encoded string given a string?

2. How do I decode a base64 encoded string into a string?

Answer 1

You can use below routine to convert string to base64 format

public static string ToBase64(string s)
{
    byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(s);
    return System.Convert.ToBase64String(buffer);
}

Also you can use very good online tool OnlineUtility.in to encode string in base64 format