HttpUtility Class

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Provides methods for encoding and decoding HTML and URL strings.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.Windows.Browser.HttpUtility

Namespace:  System.Windows.Browser
Assembly:  System.Windows.Browser (in System.Windows.Browser.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<SecuritySafeCriticalAttribute> _
Public NotInheritable Class HttpUtility
[SecuritySafeCriticalAttribute]
public static class HttpUtility

The HttpUtility type exposes the following members.

Methods

  Name Description
Public methodStatic member HtmlDecode Converts a string that has been HTML-encoded (for HTTP transmission) into a decoded string.
Public methodStatic member HtmlEncode Converts a text string into an HTML-encoded string.
Public methodStatic member UrlDecode Converts a string that has been encoded for transmission in a URL into a decoded string.
Public methodStatic member UrlEncode Converts a text string into a URL-encoded string.

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Remarks

For more information, see the System.Web.HttpUtility class in the .NET Framework documentation.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.