Opposite of .net Encoding.UTF8.GetString

Question

What is the complementary method of Encoding.UTF8.GetString

That is, if Encoding.UTF8.GetString decodes bytes in a byte array into a string, what method encodes a string into bytes in a byte array, so that

var somestring == Encoding.UTF8.GetString(method(someString));

is true?

Answer 1

The reverse method is Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes. Similar classes exist with the same method for ASCII and UTF16 encodings.

System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("TestString")