html tags in app.config file in .net console application

Question

I need to add html tags in app.config file in C# console application. I tried

<p>

but it dint work for me. Any ideas?

Answer 1

First, add a reference to System.Web to your project. Then, you can store your HTML by HTML encoding it. Simply call HttpUtility.UrlDecode() on your value stored in the config file.

Your config file:

<appSettings>
    <add key="HTML" value="&lt;p&gt;My paragraph&lt;/p&gt;"/>
</appSettings>

Your code:

string html = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["HTML"]);

Answer 2

Think you would actually want to

string html = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["HTML"]);