.NET Useful Cast & Conversions

Memory Stream to String

Dim str As String = New StreamReader(stream).ReadToEnd

Byte Array to String and vice versa

Dim SMSCData(0 To 50) As Byte
Dim smsc as String = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(SMSCData, 0, SMSCData.Length)
Dim password As String
Dim passwArray As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(password)