Alternative to HttpUtility for .NET 3.5 SP1 client framework?

Question

It\'d be really nice to target my Windows Forms app to the .NET 3.5 SP1 client framework. But, right now I\'m using the HttpUtility.HtmlDecode and

Answer 1

Apparently google couldn't find it either, so they wrote there own api-compatible version:

Here's a workaround:

1. Compile Google's version as a library

   wget 'http://google-gdata.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/clients/cs/src/core/HttpUtility.cs'
   gmcs -t:library HttpUtility.cs
   

2. Edit your-project.cs to include that namespace

   using Google.GData.Client; // where HttpUtility lives
   

3. Recompile using the library

   gmcs your-project.cs -r:System.Web.Services -r:System.Web -r:HttpUtility
   

From glancing at the source code, it appears that this is .NET 2.0-compatible.

I just wrote my first hello world in csharp yesterday and I ran into this problem, so I hope this helps someone else.