I’m posting this as much as a reminder to myself as anything. I infrequently find myself needing to make sure that a string is safe to use on the web in any number of scenarios. The .Net framework contains a function to do just that, but they’ve cleverly hidden it away in the security assembly. That’s why I needed to write this – I use it infrequently enough that I can never remember where it is.
To use it, just make a call to:
System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape("text to encode")
And that will do the trick "&" becomes “&”, “<” becomes “<”;, etc.
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