SSIS: Converting a string to byte-array

This is a short how-to convert a string to byte-array without any encoding (byte-by-byte) in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).

I would like to save this string “I love you” as BLOB. Let’s assume our Output column name is fileContent.

Row.filecontent.AddBlobData(GetBytes("I love you"));

AND

byte[] GetBytes(string str)
{
    byte[] bytes = new byte[str.Length * sizeof(char)];
    System.Buffer.BlockCopy(str.ToCharArray(), 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
    return bytes;
}

Reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35703025/how-do-i-convert-a-string-to-a-blobcolumn-in-ssis/46837584

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/472906/how-do-i-get-a-consistent-byte-representation-of-strings-in-c-sharp-without-manu/10380166#10380166

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