Displaying HTML characters in LinkLabel

Question

Hi All I have a windows control written in C# .NET 1.1. The control reads an XML file content with HTML named and numeric entities e.g. Some text &#8217; some text again.. I am trying to display this in a LinkLabel but somehow it is just showing blank event if I am using HtmlUtility.HtmlDecode(). Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks!

Vulpes · Answer

The problem there is that the HtmlDecode() method reads the & as a 'literal' ampersand and not as part of the HTML entity number &#8217; . However you should be able to get around this by applying the HtmlDecode() method twice before assigning the text to the LinkLabel: string s = Some text &#8217; some text again.; string t = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(s); t = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(t); // should now read as &#8217;