Convert one byte to signed byte or int

Question

oxfc is negative but I have it as a byte and its value is 252, is there any way to convert it to signed byte or int?

I found this method:

(BitConverter.ToInt16(new byte[2] { 0, 0xfc }, 0) / 256).ToString()

But is there any better way?

Answer 1

You can simply cast it:

byte b = 0xfc;
sbyte s = unchecked((sbyte)b);