How to pass ampersand (&) symbol in URL in asp.net

Here the way to find the passing '&' symbol in URL. Basically in URl '&' symbol has treated like separator in URL, Some situation we need to pass the our data with

‘&’ symbol, in such case if you pass directly it will split the data with using & symbol, you would get the desired result you need.

Here am illustrating with one example...

You have a name like..&vnam=John&jeorge

If you pass the vnam in URL, it will treat '&' symbol as a delimiter or separator

In such cases we have to use common function called URL encode.

For using this function you need use import namespace as

Import System.web;

Dim str As String = HttpUtility.UrlEncode("John&jeorge") &vnam=str

Now the & sysmbol has been replaced %20, By using this method you don’t get any errors by passing ‘&’ symbol in URL. In another side  decode the url using

str = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(str)

Also we can encode the object into specific standard format like the below code. When decode we must use the same format to decode the object

Dim str As String = HttpUtility.UrlEncode("John&jeorge",System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-15")))

ISO-8859-15:

 This character set is used throughout The Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa. It is also commonly used in most standard romanizations of East-Asian languages.Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value.

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