How to pad a binary string with zeros?

Question

string binary = Convert.ToString(15, 2);

Console.WriteLine("{0}", binary);

Prints:

1111

I want it to print 00001000

Because the data type is of string and not integer I cannot do something like this:

Console.WriteLine("{0:00000000}", binary);

Solution 1

Console.WriteLine( binary.PadLeft(8, '0'));

Solution 2

You can try this one:

Convert.ToString(15, 2).PadLeft(8, '0');

It should give you 00001111