How to write an URI string in App.Config

Question

I am making a Windows Service. The Service has to donwload something every night, and therefor I want to place the URI in the App.Config in case I late

Answer 1

You haven't properly encoded the ampersands in your URI. Remember that app.config is an XML file, so you must conform to XML's requirements for escaping (e.g. & should be &, < should be < and > should be >).

In your case, it should look like this:

But in general, if you wanted to store a string that looked like "I <3 angle bra>>" then do this:

    


void StringEncodingTest() {
    String expected = "I <3 angle bra>>";
    String actual   = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["someString"];
    Debug.Assert.AreEqual( expected, actual );
}