Given the following information

Public Enum Request As Byte
    None = 0
    Identity = 1
    License = 2
End Enum

Protected mType As Communication.Request

mType = Communication.Request.Identity

Debug.Print (BitConverter.GetBytes(mType).Length.tostring)

2

Why does bitconverter report that mType is a length of 2. I would have thought that passing a Byte into BitConverter.GetBytes would just return the Byte.

I mean it's no big deal because it's only sending a very small block of data across a TCP Socket, but I'm just intrigued why it thinks it's 2 bytes.