Convert byte to sbyte - no easy way?

[Ray Ackley]

I need to convert a byte to an sbyte - and it has to preserve the
original binary meaning of the 8 bits. For example - a 1111 1111,
which is interpreted as byte to be 255, should show up in the sbyte as
-1. The BitConverter class only takes 2 byte arrays or larger, and
the Convert.ToSByte simply throws an overflow error. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ray Ackley

[Grant Richins [MS]]

Re: Convert byte to sbyte - no easy way?

byte b = 0xFF;
sbyte sb = unchecked((sbyt e)b);

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[Ray Ackley]

Re: Convert byte to sbyte - no easy way?

"Grant Richins [MS]" <grantri@online .microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<uqbTEKXpD HA.2588@tk2msft ngp13.phx.gbl>. ..[color=blue]
> byte b = 0xFF;
> sbyte sb = unchecked((sbyt e)b);[/color]


Thanks! That worked great.

Ray Ackley