The goal is to get a byte[16] where the first element is hex value 55 and the second element is hex value AA. And the other 14 are hex value 0. 

I tried 

```
byte[] outStream = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("55 AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00");

```

but this fills the byte[] with the ascii values, not the hex values.

I tried

```
  byte[] outStream = new byte[16];
  outStream[0] = byte.Parse("55");
  outStream[1] = byte.Parse("AA");
  for(int i=2; i<16; i++)
  {
    outStream[i] = byte.Parse("00");
  }

```

but this doesn't work either. It doesn't give the hex values, but rather the integer values which crashes on the AA since it is not a parsable int.

Any help would be appreciated.