A Byte Array with all 0x00 is Equaled to 0x08?

I think I encountered something extraordinary strange in VS 2008.

All the array values are 0x00, but why it is displayed 0x00000008 at t开发者_运维知识库he start of the variable?

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Visual studio is displaying the size of your array (in items) not the value. You have eight bytes in your array denoted by byte[8] in decimal or byte[0x00000008] as a 32-bit hex value.

Right click the window and select Hexadecimal Display to switch to a decimal view of the values. I find the decimal view more workable when dealing with small integer types and you won't get confused by all the extra hex notation (although it depends on your personal preference).

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That's the length of the array. Eight elements.

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Because it's an array of 8 values, 0 through 7

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8 refers to the length of the byte array.

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This is the length of the array. Notice that in the first column it's listing the indices - there are eight items in the array. (You could think of it as saying that the value of the array is a bytearray with eight items).