AD property value data type is String or byte[]

I was trying to read a property value from the user schema of an Active Directory, the mystery is that the value data type sometimes comes as byte[] & sometimes as String. As much as I do not like it, I have to rely on the type for further processing..

System.Type type = objectTemp.GetType();
    if (type == typeof(String))                    
          this.property1= objectTemp.ToString();

    if (type == typeof(byte[]))
    {   
       this.property1= System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString((byte[])objectTemp);                  
    }         

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