Escape & character in string

Question

I want to set value appconfig key,but value contains & character.I tried double && like this "8L&&L26X0s8@P" but dont working.Can you help me please?

 <add key="SAP_PASS" value="8L&L26X0s8@P"/>

Answer 1

As app.config is xml file, use XML entities for this.

Specifically & is coded as & (including the semicolon) in XML.