C# binary data conversion to string

Question

Here is the deal. I found a source code and changed it a little bit so i can retrieve data from a receiver that is on com6. The data i am receiving is binary. What i want is to

Answer 1

Data from ports will always come in binary(bytes), therefore it depends on how to interpret the data. Assuming that the bytes are ASCII, you can encode it to a string as follows:

byte[] binaryData ; // assuming binaryData contains the bytes from the port.

string ascii =  Encoding.ASCII.GetString(binaryData);