Question

I’m reading a password from a config file with my C# application (it’s a windows service). I’m using these lines:

private NameValueCollection appSettings = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings;
string password = appSettings["Password"];

The config looks like:

<add key="Password" value="exam&ple" />

The service can’t start because the application configuration is incorrect. If I remove the ‘&’, the service works. How could I control this problem?? Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to encode your values in the app.config like this

<add key="Password" value="exam&amp;ple"/>