What is the C++ analog of C# byte[]?

Question

What is the C++ (and or visual-C++) analog of C# byte[]?

Answer 1

byte[], in C#, is an array of unsigned 8-bit integers (byte).

An equivalent would be uint8_t array[].

uint8_t is defined in stdint.h (C) and cstdint (C++), if they are not provided on your system, you could easily download them, or define them yourself (see this SO question).

Answer 2

The closest equivalent type in C++ would be a dynamically created array of "unsigned char" (unless you're running on a processor that defines a byte as something other than 8 bits).

So for example

in C#

byte[] array = new byte[10];

in C++

unsigned char *array = new unsigned char[10];

Answer 3

In C++ standard, char, signed char and unsigned char are three available char types. char maybe signed or unsigned, therefore:

typedef signed char sbyte;
typedef unsigned char byte;

byte bytes[] = { 0, 244, 129 };