Waleed Eissa代码的逆函数（十六进制字符串到字节数组）：

    public static byte[] HexToBytes(this string hexString)        
    {
        byte[] b = new byte[hexString.Length / 2];            
        char c;
        for (int i = 0; i < hexString.Length / 2; i++)
        {
            c = hexString[i * 2];
            b[i] = (byte)((c < 0x40 ? c - 0x30 : (c < 0x47 ? c - 0x37 : c - 0x57)) << 4);
            c = hexString[i * 2 + 1];
            b[i] += (byte)(c < 0x40 ? c - 0x30 : (c < 0x47 ? c - 0x37 : c - 0x57));
        }

        return b;
    }

Waleed Eissa功能，支持小写：

    public static string BytesToHex(this byte[] barray, bool toLowerCase = true)
    {
        byte addByte = 0x37;
        if (toLowerCase) addByte = 0x57;
        char[] c = new char[barray.Length * 2];
        byte b;
        for (int i = 0; i < barray.Length; ++i)
        {
            b = ((byte)(barray[i] >> 4));
            c[i * 2] = (char)(b > 9 ? b + addByte : b + 0x30);
            b = ((byte)(barray[i] & 0xF));
            c[i * 2 + 1] = (char)(b > 9 ? b + addByte : b + 0x30);
        }

        return new string(c);
    }

这里不想赘述很多答案，但我发现了一个十六进制字符串解析器的相当优化（比公认的好4.5倍）、简单的实现。首先，我的测试输出（第一批是我的实现）：

Give me that string:
04c63f7842740c77e545bb0b2ade90b384f119f6ab57b680b7aa575a2f40939f

Time to parse 100,000 times: 50.4192 ms
Result as base64: BMY/eEJ0DHflRbsLKt6Qs4TxGfarV7aAt6pXWi9Ak58=
BitConverter'd: 04-C6-3F-78-42-74-0C-77-E5-45-BB-0B-2A-DE-90-B3-84-F1-19-F6-AB-5
7-B6-80-B7-AA-57-5A-2F-40-93-9F

Accepted answer: (StringToByteArray)
Time to parse 100000 times: 233.1264ms
Result as base64: BMY/eEJ0DHflRbsLKt6Qs4TxGfarV7aAt6pXWi9Ak58=
BitConverter'd: 04-C6-3F-78-42-74-0C-77-E5-45-BB-0B-2A-DE-90-B3-84-F1-19-F6-AB-5
7-B6-80-B7-AA-57-5A-2F-40-93-9F

With Mono's implementation:
Time to parse 100000 times: 777.2544ms
Result as base64: BMY/eEJ0DHflRbsLKt6Qs4TxGfarV7aAt6pXWi9Ak58=
BitConverter'd: 04-C6-3F-78-42-74-0C-77-E5-45-BB-0B-2A-DE-90-B3-84-F1-19-F6-AB-5
7-B6-80-B7-AA-57-5A-2F-40-93-9F

With SoapHexBinary:
Time to parse 100000 times: 845.1456ms
Result as base64: BMY/eEJ0DHflRbsLKt6Qs4TxGfarV7aAt6pXWi9Ak58=
BitConverter'd: 04-C6-3F-78-42-74-0C-77-E5-45-BB-0B-2A-DE-90-B3-84-F1-19-F6-AB-5
7-B6-80-B7-AA-57-5A-2F-40-93-9F

base64和“BitConverter'd”行用于测试正确性。请注意，它们是相等的。

实施：

public static byte[] ToByteArrayFromHex(string hexString)
{
  if (hexString.Length % 2 != 0) throw new ArgumentException("String must have an even length");
  var array = new byte[hexString.Length / 2];
  for (int i = 0; i < hexString.Length; i += 2)
  {
    array[i/2] = ByteFromTwoChars(hexString[i], hexString[i + 1]);
  }
  return array;
}

private static byte ByteFromTwoChars(char p, char p_2)
{
  byte ret;
  if (p <= '9' && p >= '0')
  {
    ret = (byte) ((p - '0') << 4);
  }
  else if (p <= 'f' && p >= 'a')
  {
    ret = (byte) ((p - 'a' + 10) << 4);
  }
  else if (p <= 'F' && p >= 'A')
  {
    ret = (byte) ((p - 'A' + 10) << 4);
  } else throw new ArgumentException("Char is not a hex digit: " + p,"p");

  if (p_2 <= '9' && p_2 >= '0')
  {
    ret |= (byte) ((p_2 - '0'));
  }
  else if (p_2 <= 'f' && p_2 >= 'a')
  {
    ret |= (byte) ((p_2 - 'a' + 10));
  }
  else if (p_2 <= 'F' && p_2 >= 'A')
  {
    ret |= (byte) ((p_2 - 'A' + 10));
  } else throw new ArgumentException("Char is not a hex digit: " + p_2, "p_2");

  return ret;
}

我尝试了一些不安全的东西，并将（显然是冗余的）字符移动到另一个方法来蚕食if序列，但这是最快的。

（我承认这回答了一半的问题。我觉得字符串->字节[]转换不足，而字节[]->字符串角度似乎被很好地覆盖了。因此，这个答案。）

未针对速度进行优化，但比大多数答案（.NET 4.0）更LINQy：

<Extension()>
Public Function FromHexToByteArray(hex As String) As Byte()
    hex = If(hex, String.Empty)
    If hex.Length Mod 2 = 1 Then hex = "0" & hex
    Return Enumerable.Range(0, hex.Length \ 2).Select(Function(i) Convert.ToByte(hex.Substring(i * 2, 2), 16)).ToArray
End Function

<Extension()>
Public Function ToHexString(bytes As IEnumerable(Of Byte)) As String
    Return String.Concat(bytes.Select(Function(b) b.ToString("X2")))
End Function

为了方便以后复制和粘贴，将几个答案合并到一个类中：

/// <summary>
/// Extension methods to quickly convert byte array to string and back.
/// </summary>
public static class HexConverter
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Map values to hex digits
    /// </summary>
    private static readonly char[] HexDigits =
        {
            '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'
        };

    /// <summary>
    /// Map 56 characters between ['0', 'F'] to their hex equivalents, and set invalid characters
    /// such that they will overflow byte to fail conversion.
    /// </summary>
    private static readonly ushort[] HexValues =
        {
            0x0000, 0x0001, 0x0002, 0x0003, 0x0004, 0x0005, 0x0006, 0x0007, 0x0008, 0x0009, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100,
            0x000A, 0x000B, 0x000C, 0x000D, 0x000E, 0x000F, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100,
            0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x0100, 0x000A, 0x000B,
            0x000C, 0x000D, 0x000E, 0x000F
        };

    /// <summary>
    /// Empty byte array 
    /// </summary>
    private static readonly byte[] Empty = new byte[0];

    /// <summary>
    /// Convert a byte array to a hexadecimal string.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="bytes">
    /// The input byte array.
    /// </param>
    /// <returns>
    /// A string of hexadecimal digits.
    /// </returns>
    public static string ToHexString(this byte[] bytes)
    {
        var c = new char[bytes.Length * 2];
        for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++)
        {
            c[j++] = HexDigits[bytes[i] >> 4];
            c[j++] = HexDigits[bytes[i] & 0x0F];
        }

        return new string(c);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Parse a string of hexadecimal digits into a byte array.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="hexadecimalString">
    /// The hexadecimal string.
    /// </param>
    /// <returns>
    /// The parsed <see cref="byte[]"/> array.
    /// </returns>
    /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">
    /// The input string either contained invalid characters, or was of an odd length.
    /// </exception>
    public static byte[] ToByteArray(string hexadecimalString)
    {
        if (!TryParse(hexadecimalString, out var value))
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("Invalid hexadecimal string", nameof(hexadecimalString));
        }

        return value;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Parse a hexadecimal string to bytes
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="hexadecimalString">
    /// The hexadecimal string, which must be an even number of characters.
    /// </param>
    /// <param name="value">
    /// The parsed value if successful.
    /// </param>
    /// <returns>
    /// True if successful.
    /// </returns>
    public static bool TryParse(string hexadecimalString, out byte[] value)
    {
        if (hexadecimalString.Length == 0)
        {
            value = Empty;
            return true;
        }

        if (hexadecimalString.Length % 2 != 0)
        {
            value = Empty;
            return false;
        }

        try
        {

            value = new byte[hexadecimalString.Length / 2];
            for (int i = 0, j = 0; j < hexadecimalString.Length; i++)
            {
                value[i] = (byte)((HexValues[hexadecimalString[j++] - '0'] << 4)
                                  | HexValues[hexadecimalString[j++] - '0']);
            }

            return true;
        }
        catch (OverflowException)
        {
            value = Empty;
            return false;
        }
    }
}

扩展方法（免责声明：完全未经测试的代码，BTW…）：

public static class ByteExtensions
{
    public static string ToHexString(this byte[] ba)
    {
        StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder(ba.Length * 2);

        foreach (byte b in ba)
        {
            hex.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
        }
        return hex.ToString();
    }
}

使用Tomalak的三种解决方案之一（最后一种是字符串上的扩展方法）。

还有XmlWriter.WriteBinHex（请参见MSDN页面）。如果需要将十六进制字符串放入XML流中，这非常有用。

下面是一个独立的方法来了解它的工作原理：

    public static string ToBinHex(byte[] bytes)
    {
        XmlWriterSettings xmlWriterSettings = new XmlWriterSettings();
        xmlWriterSettings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
        xmlWriterSettings.CheckCharacters = false;
        xmlWriterSettings.Encoding = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII;
        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
        using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(memoryStream, xmlWriterSettings))
        {
            xmlWriter.WriteBinHex(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
        }
        return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());
    }