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System.Byte (struct)

System.Byte represents an 8-bit unsigned integer.

In the .NET terminology, a sequence of bytes is referred to as stream. The base class for all streams is System.IO.Stream.

In PowerShell, the data type suffix for integers to indicate a (signed) Byte is y, the suffix for an unsigned byte is uy:

PS C:\> (42y).GetType().FullName
System.SByte
PS C:\> (42uy).GetType().FullName
System.Byte
System.SByte

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