Public Overloads Shared Function DecodeBytes( _
   ByVal inData() As Byte _
) As Byte()

public static byte[] DecodeBytes( 
   byte[] inData
)

//char count must by multiple of 4 for the compare to work
string encoded = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_";
byte[] data = Safe64Encoding.DecodeBytes(encoded);
Assert.AreEqual(encoded, Safe64Encoding.EncodeBytes(data));
data = AsciiEncoder.DecodeBytes(encoded);
Assert.AreEqual(encoded, AsciiEncoder.EncodeBytes(data));
data = AsciiEncoder.DecodeBytes(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(encoded));
Assert.AreEqual(encoded, AsciiEncoder.EncodeBytes(data));

'char count must by multiple of 4 for the compare to work
Dim encoded As String = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_"
Dim data As Byte() = Safe64Encoding.DecodeBytes(encoded)
Assert.AreEqual(encoded, Safe64Encoding.EncodeBytes(data))
data = AsciiEncoder.DecodeBytes(encoded)
Assert.AreEqual(encoded, AsciiEncoder.EncodeBytes(data))
data = AsciiEncoder.DecodeBytes(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(encoded))
Assert.AreEqual(encoded, AsciiEncoder.EncodeBytes(data))