UrlEncode/System.Web not available in console application?

Question

I need UrlEncode in my application because i am submitting a form to my server. My app is a quick console utility targeting to .NET 3.5.

The page says i need System.Web assembly, yet when i try to add the reference it isnt there. My WebServer application has it which is also targeted to 3.5 but this console app cant reference it. Why not? how can i access UrlEncode?

Answer 1

You can - just make sure you've added a reference to System.Web.dll, which may not be in a console project by default.

I suspect this isn't in the Client Profile, mind you - I don't know if that's an issue for you.

I've just tested this with a console app from the command line:

using System;
using System.Web;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string text = "hello there";
        string encoded = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(text);
        Console.WriteLine(encoded); // prints hello+there
    }
}

I was able to just compile with

csc Test.cs

but I suspect the default response file contains more assembly references than the default Console Application project template in Visual Studio...