How to generate HMAC-SHA1 in C#?

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an extension to Vimvq1987’s answer:

return hashValue.ToString(); doesn’t produce the output you want/need. You have to convert the bytes in the array hashValue to their hex-string representation.
Can be as simple as return BitConverter.toString(hashValue); (prints upper-case letters A-F) or if you like it a bit more complex:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        public static string Encode(string input, byte[] key)
        {
            HMACSHA1 myhmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(key);
            byte[] byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(input);
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
            return myhmacsha1.ComputeHash(stream).Aggregate("", (s, e) => s + String.Format("{0:x2}",e), s => s );
        }


        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            byte[] key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");
            string input = "";
            foreach (string s in new string[] { "Marry", " had", " a", " little", " lamb" })
            {
                input += s;
                System.Console.WriteLine( Encode(input, key) );
            }
            return;
        }
    }
}

which prints

3545e064fb59bc4bfc02b6e1c3d4925c898aa504
3249f4c8468d4d67f465937da05b809eaff22fdb
87baaadf5d096677f944015e53d283834eb1e943
6325376820c29a09e3ab30db000033aa71d6927d
54579b0146e2476595381d837ee38863be358213

and I get the exact same result for

<?php
$secretKey = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';

$signatureString = '';
foreach( array('Marry',' had',' a',' little',' lamb') as $s ) {
    $signatureString .= $s;
    echo hash_hmac('sha1', $signatureString, $secretKey, false), "\n";
}

edit: Dmitriy Nemykin suggested the following edit

public static string Encode(string input, byte[] key)
{
    byte[] byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(input);
    using(var myhmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(key))
    {
        var hashArray = myhmacsha1.ComputeHash(byteArray);
        return hashArray.Aggregate("", (s, e) => s + String.Format("{0:x2}",e), s => s );
    }
}

which was rejected. But as James already pointed out in a comment to this answer at the very least the using statement is a good point.

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