HttpUtility Class

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Provides methods for encoding and decoding HTML and URL strings.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.Net.HttpUtility

Namespace:  System.Net
Assembly:  System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class HttpUtility

public static class HttpUtility

The HttpUtility type exposes the following members.

Methods

	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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Remarks

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

Version Information

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

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

Thread Safety

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

See Also

Reference

System.Net Namespace