private static bool CompareByteArrays(byte[] array1, byte[] array2)
{
if (array1.Length != array2.Length)
return false;

for (int i = 0; i < array1.Length; i++)
if (array1[i] != array2[i])
return false;

return true;
}

Good luck!

=D Kees

However, I wanted to explain why some of the suggestions here should not be used.

1: Convert.ToBase64String(array1)==Convert.ToBase64String(array2)
The problems with this are as follows:
a: You are always getting the worst possible performance out of this. Without first checking the lengths of the arrays to be sure they are equal then you will always end up processing both arrays entirely.
b: Terrible runtime performance. You are iterating across all of array1 and array2 to convert them to strings, then iterating across both resulting strings to check equality. This will do twice as much work as just iterating through them and comparing the array byte values. Just because a method is provided by the runtime does not make it any faster than doing it manually(in most cases).
c: Terrible memory use. Although the strings are only used for a moment, there is a price to pay for allocating them.

I would write more but now I am tired of all of this.
-Tim

Convert.ToBase64String(array1)==Convert.ToBase64String(array2)

Thanks!!

1. You can’t have both static and override modifiers on the same method – I presume this was a typo;

2. Your method only works for vectors; multi-dimensional arrays would take a lot more effort.

Convert.ToBase64String(array1)==Convert.ToBase64String(array2)