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());
    }

可以使用从.NET 5开始的Convert.ToHexString。还有一个用于反向操作的方法：Convert.FromHexString。

对于较旧版本的.NET，您可以使用：

public static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] ba)
{
  StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder(ba.Length * 2);
  foreach (byte b in ba)
    hex.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
  return hex.ToString();
}

or:

public static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] ba)
{
  return BitConverter.ToString(ba).Replace("-","");
}

举个例子，这里有更多的方法。

反向转换如下：

public static byte[] StringToByteArray(String hex)
{
  int NumberChars = hex.Length;
  byte[] bytes = new byte[NumberChars / 2];
  for (int i = 0; i < NumberChars; i += 2)
    bytes[i / 2] = Convert.ToByte(hex.Substring(i, 2), 16);
  return bytes;
}

使用Substring是与Convert.ToByte结合使用的最佳选项。有关详细信息，请参阅此答案。如果需要更好的性能，必须避免Convert.ToByte，然后才能删除SubString。

安全版本：

public static class HexHelper
{
    [System.Diagnostics.Contracts.Pure]
    public static string ToHex(this byte[] value)
    {
        if (value == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("value");

        const string hexAlphabet = @"0123456789ABCDEF";

        var chars = new char[checked(value.Length * 2)];
        unchecked
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < value.Length; i++)
            {
                chars[i * 2] = hexAlphabet[value[i] >> 4];
                chars[i * 2 + 1] = hexAlphabet[value[i] & 0xF];
            }
        }
        return new string(chars);
    }

    [System.Diagnostics.Contracts.Pure]
    public static byte[] FromHex(this string value)
    {
        if (value == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
        if (value.Length % 2 != 0)
            throw new ArgumentException("Hexadecimal value length must be even.", "value");

        unchecked
        {
            byte[] result = new byte[value.Length / 2];
            for (int i = 0; i < result.Length; i++)
            {
                // 0(48) - 9(57) -> 0 - 9
                // A(65) - F(70) -> 10 - 15
                int b = value[i * 2]; // High 4 bits.
                int val = ((b - '0') + ((('9' - b) >> 31) & -7)) << 4;
                b = value[i * 2 + 1]; // Low 4 bits.
                val += (b - '0') + ((('9' - b) >> 31) & -7);
                result[i] = checked((byte)val);
            }
            return result;
        }
    }
}

不安全版本适用于那些喜欢性能且不怕不安全的人。ToHex快35%，FromHex快10%。

public static class HexUnsafeHelper
{
    [System.Diagnostics.Contracts.Pure]
    public static unsafe string ToHex(this byte[] value)
    {
        if (value == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("value");

        const string alphabet = @"0123456789ABCDEF";

        string result = new string(' ', checked(value.Length * 2));
        fixed (char* alphabetPtr = alphabet)
        fixed (char* resultPtr = result)
        {
            char* ptr = resultPtr;
            unchecked
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < value.Length; i++)
                {
                    *ptr++ = *(alphabetPtr + (value[i] >> 4));
                    *ptr++ = *(alphabetPtr + (value[i] & 0xF));
                }
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    [System.Diagnostics.Contracts.Pure]
    public static unsafe byte[] FromHex(this string value)
    {
        if (value == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
        if (value.Length % 2 != 0)
            throw new ArgumentException("Hexadecimal value length must be even.", "value");

        unchecked
        {
            byte[] result = new byte[value.Length / 2];
            fixed (char* valuePtr = value)
            {
                char* valPtr = valuePtr;
                for (int i = 0; i < result.Length; i++)
                {
                    // 0(48) - 9(57) -> 0 - 9
                    // A(65) - F(70) -> 10 - 15
                    int b = *valPtr++; // High 4 bits.
                    int val = ((b - '0') + ((('9' - b) >> 31) & -7)) << 4;
                    b = *valPtr++; // Low 4 bits.
                    val += (b - '0') + ((('9' - b) >> 31) & -7);
                    result[i] = checked((byte)val);
                }
            }
            return result;
        }
    }
}

顺便提一下对于每次调用的转换函数错误时初始化字母表的基准测试，字母表必须是常量（对于字符串）或静态只读（对于字符[]）。然后，基于字母表的字节[]到字符串的转换变得和字节操作版本一样快。

当然，测试必须在Release中编译（带有优化），并关闭调试选项“抑制JIT优化”（如果代码必须可调试，则“仅启用我的代码”也是如此）。

多样性的另一种变化：

public static byte[] FromHexString(string src)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(src))
        return null;

    int index = src.Length;
    int sz = index / 2;
    if (sz <= 0)
        return null;

    byte[] rc = new byte[sz];

    while (--sz >= 0)
    {
        char lo = src[--index];
        char hi = src[--index];

        rc[sz] = (byte)(
            (
                (hi >= '0' && hi <= '9') ? hi - '0' :
                (hi >= 'a' && hi <= 'f') ? hi - 'a' + 10 :
                (hi >= 'A' && hi <= 'F') ? hi - 'A' + 10 :
                0
            )
            << 4 | 
            (
                (lo >= '0' && lo <= '9') ? lo - '0' :
                (lo >= 'a' && lo <= 'f') ? lo - 'a' + 10 :
                (lo >= 'A' && lo <= 'F') ? lo - 'A' + 10 :
                0
            )
        );
    }

    return rc;          
}

如果性能很重要，这里有一个优化的解决方案：

    static readonly char[] _hexDigits = "0123456789abcdef".ToCharArray();
    public static string ToHexString(this byte[] bytes)
    {
        char[] digits = new char[bytes.Length * 2];
        for (int i = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++)
        {
            int d1, d2;
            d1 = Math.DivRem(bytes[i], 16, out d2);
            digits[2 * i] = _hexDigits[d1];
            digits[2 * i + 1] = _hexDigits[d2];
        }
        return new string(digits);
    }

它比BitConverter.ToString快2.5倍，比BitConverter.ToString+删除“-”字符快7倍。

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;
        }
    }
}