System.Web Namespace   HttpServerUtility Class

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Decodes a string that has been encoded to eliminate invalid HTML characters.

1. Decodes an HTML-encoded string and returns the decoded string.

2. Decodes an HTML-encoded string and sends the resulting output to a TextWriter output stream.

The following example decodes a string that has been HTML-encoded for transmission over HTTP. It decodes the supplied string named EncodedString which contains the text "This is a &ltTest String&gt.", and copies it into the string named DecodedString as "This is a <Test String>."

NOTE: This example shows how to use one of the overloaded versions of HtmlDecode. For other examples that might be available, see the individual overload topics.

[ VB ]
Dim EncodedString As String = "This is a &ltTest String&gt."
Dim writer As New StringWriter
Server.HtmlDecode ( EncodedString, writer ) 
Dim DecodedString As String = writer.ToString ( )

[ C# ]
String EncodedString = "This is a &ltTest String&gt.";
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ( );
Server.HtmlDecode ( EncodedString, writer );
String DecodedString = writer.ToString ( );

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