How to have &/& in web.config file

Question

i m passing URl from web config where i need to write
Example :: URL=http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2SKPB_enIN332&ei=yktESuLfIIbg7APpquQj&sa=X&spell=1

if i write this url in web.config file i m getting in valid URL.

How to go about it?

Answer 1

Web.config needs to be valid XML - so replace the & with &. When you read it from your config u can always convert it back with HtmlDecode

Answer 2

Make sure it is written using proper Xml encoding (which, amont other things, will replace all '&' characters with '&').

This should work well:

<add key="uri" value="http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&amp;amp;rlz=1R2SKPB_enIN332&amp;amp;ei=yktESuLfIIbg7APpquQj&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;spell=1" />