How to write a password which contain "&" in app.config

Question

<add connectionString="Data Source=x.x.x.x;Initial Catalog=Testing002;User Id=hello;Password=&a:;" name="ConString"/>

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 06 '13 at 09:06

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Use & instead of &.

edited Aug 06 '13 at 09:06

npinti

answered Aug 06 '13 at 09:05

Raoul George

still the same error, what is the difference – ControlPoly Aug 06 '13 at 09:07
@ControlPoly: The different is that `&` is the way you should encode `&` in XML files. – Jon Skeet Aug 06 '13 at 09:07

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