Question

Do I need to go through the whole thing (see below) and make it escape in order put this in string? (using c#, vs 2010, console app)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="_layouts/jquery/global.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="_layouts/jQuery/jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_layouts/jQuery/slides.min.jquery.js"></script>
<script>
    $(function(){
        $('#slides').slides({
            preload: true,
            preloadImage: 'img/loading.gif',
            play: 5000,
            pause: 2500,
            hoverPause: true,
            animationStart: function(current){
                $('.caption').animate({
                    bottom:-50
                },100);
                if (window.console && console.log) {
                    // example return of current slide number
                    console.log('animationStart on slide: ', current);
                };
            },
            animationComplete: function(current){
                $('.caption').animate({
                    bottom:0
                },200);
                if (window.console && console.log) {
                    // example return of current slide number
                    console.log('animationComplete on slide: ', current);
                };
            },
            slidesLoaded: function() {
                $('.caption').animate({
                    bottom:0
                },200);
            }
        });
    });
</script>

    <div id="container">
        <div id="example">
            <img src="img/new-ribbon.png" width="112" height="112" alt="New Ribbon" id="ribbon">
            <div id="slides">
                <div class="slides_container">

Answer 1

If you’ve got a large amount of text which you want to put in a string, I wouldn’t hard-code it into the source code to start with. Either include it in a file you can load from disk, or include it in an embedded resource and load it with Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream. That way it doesn’t need escaping, you can use syntax highlighting in your favourite editor, and your C# code stays filled with C# rather than HTML.