ky with http in value causes debug to fail

[JerryK]

HI,

If add a key of the form

<add key="mykey" value=http://somewhere.com?id= />

to my web.conmfig I get an error that it can't debug in Visual Studio. Has
anyone seen this before?

jerry

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hey Jerry,

The xml isn't well-formed. The value of the value attribute must be quoted:

<add key="mykey" value="http://somewhere.com?id=" />

 

[JerryK]

My example was poor. In the code it is in quotes. I also tried replacing
the double quotes with single quotes.

jerry

 

[JerryK]

Found the problem. The value cannot contain an ampersand for some reason.
Very strange. I guess I will use entities instead.

jerry

 

[MWells]

Ampersands must be expressed as &amp; this is part of the XML syntax.
(since an ampersand signifies the start of an XML entity).