RichTextBox special characters?

[Terry Olsen]

How can I force the RTB to display an ampersand as '&' instead of '&'?
And '<' instead of '&lt;', etc?

 

[Larry Lard]

How can I force the RTB to display an ampersand as '&' instead of '&amp;'?
And '<' instead of '&lt;', etc?

Well, the RTB doesn't do any translation of its own. It just displays
the string you put in it. So may be the string you think has & in it
actually has already had the html stuff encoded? Check in the debugger
what you are actually assigning to the RTB.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How can I force the RTB to display an ampersand as '&' instead of '&amp;'?
And '<' instead of '&lt;', etc?

Replace the entities prior to assigning the string to the richtextbox
control.

 

[Terry Olsen]

I'm putting the text in an XML Document, then sending it out via UDP to
another computer, where the InnerText is put into the RTB. Before I used
the RTB, I used a standard TextBox and didn't have this problem. So what
could be changing it? I type in "Captain & Tennill" and get "Captain &amp;
Tennill" at the other end.