[release/5.0-preview8] Add methods to convert between hexadecimal strings and bytes (#37546) #39658
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Port of #37546 into the
release/5.0-preview8
branch.Description
This adds two methods (with overloads)
ToHexString
andFromHexString
toSystem.Convert
. Across the libraries, one can find various different classes and methods handling hex in more or less creative ways. This PR moves a lot of those to the implementations toHexConverter
.Customer Impact
This was a community-submitted PR that adds new (already-approved) APIs that we want to ship in .NET 5.0.