title: Converting data from nvarchar to varchar in C#
body: <p>As part of an integration task I am doing, I have a column in my database that has the type nvarchar(30) and I need call a WCF service and pass through the values in this column (among others) that will then be stored in a column that has the type varchar(30) in the other database.</p>
  
  <p>What should I do (presumably in the code that calls the WCF service) to convert my strings into "varchar friendly" strings?</p>
  
  <p>Update: Nothing has gone wrong yet. However I will be doing an initial migration of 120,000 records through this service and then about 300 new records will be pushed through this service each day. As such, manual intervention of any kind is very undesirable and I'm just thinking about what might go wrong in advance. I have no control over the target database (with VARCHAR column), however I do know that it is SQL Server and C# for the application (not sure if they're using ADO.NET).</p>