I am testing BinaryFormatter to see how it will work for me and I have a simple question:

When using it with the string HELLO, and I convert the MemoryStream to an array, it gives me 29 dimensions, with five of them being the actual data towards the end of the dimensions:

            BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

            byte[] bytes;
            string originalData = "HELLO";

            bf.Serialize(ms, originalData);
            ms.Seek(0, 0);

            bytes = ms.ToArray();

returns

-       bytes   {Dimensions:[29]}   byte[]
        [0] 0   byte
        [1] 1   byte
        [2] 0   byte
        [3] 0   byte
        [4] 0   byte
        [5] 255 byte
        [6] 255 byte
        [7] 255 byte
        [8] 255 byte
        [9] 1   byte
        [10]    0   byte
        [11]    0   byte
        [12]    0   byte
        [13]    0   byte
        [14]    0   byte
        [15]    0   byte
        [16]    0   byte
        [17]    6   byte
        [18]    1   byte
        [19]    0   byte
        [20]    0   byte
        [21]    0   byte
        [22]    5   byte
        [23]    72  byte
        [24]    69  byte
        [25]    76  byte
        [26]    76  byte
        [27]    79  byte
        [28]    11  byte

Is there a way to only return the data encoded as bytes without all the extraneous information?