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)

'Declaration
<SecuritySafeCriticalAttribute> _
Public NotInheritable Class HttpUtility

[SecuritySafeCriticalAttribute]
public static class HttpUtility

The HttpUtility type exposes the following members.

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

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

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

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

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