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Henrik Erlandsson
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Linklabel deletes ampersand & when setting Text property
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I am trying to set the Text property like this:

  lnkHTTPService.Text = "http://localhost:" & numWebAPIPort.Value.ToString & "/VisualCron/xml/logon?username=admin&password=qwerty123"

http://screencast.com/t/8TCqgOa0j

So, I added an extra % and it looked good (only one & was seen) but then a customer complained that it saw two && in form. What is happening?

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    The ampersand (&) is a special character in HTML. When you want one to appear in a URI you have to escape it, i.e., replace it with the string '&'.

    Note that the ParsedFormattedTextValue class exposes a static method, EscapeXML, which does this for you.