New Engine, New Skin…

Knowing that my version of BlogEngine.NET was way out of date, I upgraded to the more recent and decided to throw on a new skin… I know Mads is probably going to drop the latest and greatest version 1.5 any day now right….

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Basic C# Extension Methods: HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode

Extension methods… They’re cool, they’re great, and we all know that they are dangerous…. But….

Current project has a few forms, as always, and I found myself coding and decoding text input data, keeping a secure site, and it dawned on me…

Why don’t we use the features which were so graciously created for us??? Duh!

So here is a down and dirty Extension method to HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode a string…

public static string HtmlEncode(this string value)
{
  return HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlEncode(value);
}
public static string HtmlDecode(this string value)
{
   return HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlDecode(value);
}

If we are populating a form from our application model object, let’s just say a customer, it is easily implemented like so….

FirstNameLabel.Text = customer.FirstName.HtmlDecode();
LastNameLabel.Text = customer.LastName.HtmlDecode();

Or, if we are grabbing data from a form and populating our same application model customer object….

var newCustomer = new Customer
      {
           FirstName =  FirstNameTextBox.Text.HtmlEncode(),   
           LastName = LastName TextBox.Text.HtmlEncode()
      };

Enjoy,

RA

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