#Adam.Blog#

Sometimes it is necessary to send a file to someplace, but not practical to send it as a binary file. This is where base64 encoding comes in handy. Such a think has many uses, for example in webservices. It may be necessary to send a file via webservice to some 3rd party system. Base64 encoding allows you to overcome the firewall by converting that binary data to string data. Here’s an example of converting a file to Base64 encoding.

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private string ConvertFileToBase64(string Filename)
{
   string result = "";
 
   using (FileStream reader = new FileStream(Filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
   {
      byte[] buffer = new byte[reader.Length];
      reader.Read(buffer, 0, (int) reader.Length);
 
      result = Convert.ToBase64String(buffer);
   }
 
   return result;
}

And there you have it! Send that puppy all over the internet!