BerConverter.Encode(String, Object[]) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.DirectoryServices.Protocols

Assembly:

System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.dll

Package:

System.DirectoryServices.Protocols v9.0.0

Source:

BerConverter.cs

The Encode(String, Object[]) method encodes structured data, using BER, to retrieve a binary representation of the data.

public:
 static cli::array <System::Byte> ^ Encode(System::String ^ format, ... cli::array <System::Object ^> ^ value);

public static byte[] Encode (string format, params object[] value);

static member Encode : string * obj[] -> byte[]

Public Shared Function Encode (format As String, ParamArray value As Object()) As Byte()

Parameters

format

String

The format string.

value

Object[]

An array of formatted data.

Returns

Byte[]

An array of BER-encoded data.

Remarks

The following are valid format characters.

Encoding rules:

Code	Corresponding Argument
'{' '}' '[' ']' 'n'	No corresponding argument
't' 'i' 'e'	int
'a'	Octet string
'b'	bool
's'	string
'o' 'X'	byte[]
'v'	string[]
'V'	byte[][]

Note

'v' and 'V' are special in that a double {} is required. For example, use {{v}} and {{V}}.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	format is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
ArgumentException	This exception occurs in any one of the following conditions: - There are not enough arguments for the format string. - The format string argument is incorrect. - The format string contains an undefined character.
BerConversionException	Error processing return value.