Rolls, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I'm a little bit confused over all the encoding types and the
> documentation and I have a query with the following -
>
> is this equivalent -
>
> Byte[] a = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Fred");
> Byte[] b = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Fred");
>
> and the same for UnicodeEncoding, UTF7Encoding, UTF8Encoding?
>
> The documentation also seems all over the place especially
> what public members the class is supposed to expose?
Yes they are equivalent. ASCIIEncoding subclasses Encoding and Encoding has
a static member (singleton) which is an instance of type ASCIIEncoding. So
when you do ASCIIEncoding.ASCII, your really just getting Encoding.ASCII.
It's a bit tricky when you first look at it, but if you understand the class
design and chain of inheritance it makes sense.
Personally, I think using "Encoding.ASCII" in code makes more sense in terms
of readability.
HTH,
Drew
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