A C# Overloaded Method to Calculate an MD5 Hash

Category:

C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Anonymous

Version Compatibility: C#

More information:

This snippet calculates the MD5 has of a given string and optionally accepts the encoding type to use. The method is overloaded so you only have to pass in a string to hash, and the system encoding default is used instead.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' (None)

Code:

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