binary

Hello, I have a Binary file that has data represented in 1604 bytes. each set of data within these groups is composed of short (2 byte) numbers. I would like to creat a vb.net program that takes this binary file then converts it to numbers, and then places it within a new text file. How would I...

I know you can use '&H' to specify a number as hexadecimal, such as '&H00FF.' Can you, however, do the same thing for binary numbers? I was thinking something like '&B00101101,' but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?