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HttpServerUtility::UrlDecode Method (String)

URL-decodes a string and returns the decoded string.

Namespace:  System.Web
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public:
String^ UrlDecode(
	String^ s
)

Parameters

s
Type: System::String

The text string to decode.

Return Value

Type: System::String
The decoded text.

URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmit text in URL strings. Characters such as a question mark (?), ampersand (&), slash mark (/), and spaces might be truncated or corrupted by some browsers. As a result, these characters must be encoded in <a> tags or in query strings where the strings can be re-sent by a browser in a request string.

UrlDecode is a convenient way to access the HttpUtility::UrlDecode method at run time from an ASP.NET application. Internally, UrlDecode uses HttpUtility::UrlDecode to decode strings.

The following example decodes the string named EncodedString (received in a URL) into the string named DecodedString.

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Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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