WebUtility Class

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net

Assembly:

System.Runtime.dll

Source:

WebUtility.cs

Provides methods for encoding and decoding URLs when processing Web requests.

public ref class WebUtility abstract sealed

public static class WebUtility

type WebUtility = class

Public Class WebUtility

Inheritance

Object

WebUtility

Remarks

The HttpUtility class contains encoding and decoding utility methods for use with HTML-encode strings. The System.Uri class also contains methods and properties that can be used for similar purposes.

Methods

HtmlDecode(String, TextWriter)	Converts a string that has been HTML-encoded into a decoded string, and sends the decoded string to a TextWriter output stream.
HtmlDecode(String)	Converts a string that has been HTML-encoded for HTTP transmission into a decoded string.
HtmlEncode(String, TextWriter)	Converts a string into an HTML-encoded string, and returns the output as a TextWriter stream of output.
HtmlEncode(String)	Converts a string to an HTML-encoded string.
UrlDecode(String)	Converts a string that has been encoded for transmission in a URL into a decoded string.
UrlDecodeToBytes(Byte[], Int32, Int32)	Converts an encoded byte array that has been encoded for transmission in a URL into a decoded byte array.
UrlEncode(String)	Converts a text string into a URL-encoded string.
UrlEncodeToBytes(Byte[], Int32, Int32)	Converts a byte array into a URL-encoded byte array.

See also

• Uri
• HttpUtility
• HttpServerUtility
• Server
• How to: Protect Against Script Exploits in a Web Application by Applying HTML Encoding to Strings