Decode a serialized BrokeredMessage via Rest on non-Windows - azure

Question

I'm building a Xamarin client that reads messages from the Azure Service Bus.
My REST code can successfully pull a message off the Service Bus, but what I'm getting back appears to be binary (as in non-Text...I know it's all binary ;) )
This is the test code on Windows:
byte[] response = webClient.UploadData(fullAddress, "DELETE", new byte[0]);
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(response);
BrokeredMessage bm = new BrokeredMessage(ms);
responseStr = bm.GetBody<string>();
My problem is on Xamarin/Mono, I don't have a BrokeredMessage.
So my question is how to I de-serialize a BrokeredMessage by hand?
Here's the first few bytes of the response variable looks like:
40 06 73 74 72 69 6e 67 08 33 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 73 63 68
All the examples, I've found, say that I should be getting back XML....it 'almost' looks like XML but the 06 and the 08 are throwing me off.
I'm sure that I'm missing something simple, but I can't find it.
Any guidance would be welcome.

Answer 1

I figured it out so I'm posting the answer just in case someone else runs into the same problem.
response = webClient.UploadData(fullAddress, "DELETE", new byte[0]);
responseStr = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(response);
Dictionary<string, object> result = new Dictionary<string, object>();
foreach (var headerKey in webClient.ResponseHeaders.AllKeys)
result.Add(headerKey, webClient.ResponseHeaders[headerKey]);
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(response);
DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(string));
XmlDictionaryReader reader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateBinaryReader(ms, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max);
object deserializedBody = serializer.ReadObject(reader);
responseStr = (string)deserializedBody;
result.Add("body", responseStr);
The BrokeredMessage properties are stored in the ResponseHeaders