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The ToString method of the Convert class lets you easily and quickly convert a decimal value into a string representation of that number to binary, octal, or hexadecimal base: Click here to copy the following block ' convert to binary Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(11, 2))  ' => 1011 ' convert to octal Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(123, 8))  ' => 173 ' convert to hexadecimal Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(254, 16))  ' => fe The ToString method is overloaded to take a Byte, a Short, an Integer, or a Long value in the first argument; the second argument can only be 2, 8, 10, or 16, else an exception will be thrown.

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