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Asked: 2026-06-02T19:07:57+00:00

I want to deserialize a stream of bytes in a byte[] array in C#.

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I want to deserialize a stream of bytes in a byte[] array in C#. The byte[] array is 8196 bytes long and gets its information from a TCP/IP connection.

When I give that array to the ReadObject method of System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer, it throws me a SerializationException with the message “Encountered unexpected character ‘\0′”.

How could I fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How are you reading the string? Generally, the ‘\0’ error points to an encoding problem. The byte stream could use a particular type of encoding, and you’re either to force an encoding of your own — or you’re deserializing in such a way that a particular encoding inconsistent with the actual encoding of the stream is being assumed.

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wcf/thread/b80c9aa7-a3d1-4aa0-b61a-35363cbc177e describes a situation where the replacement of the following line of code:

    s = ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetString(ms.GetBuffer());

    with:

            ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms);
        s = sr.ReadToEnd();

    fixed the problem. Perhaps something similar applies to your situation as well?

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