How to Html Encode a string in .NET

Html Encoding is basically converting Html tags in non Html tags so that they can be embeded into a html code. Below code explains how rendering of a html string may vary because of html encoding

string htmlString = "<b>Hello world!</b>";

Response.Write(htmlString);
// This will print: Hello world!

string htmlEncoded = Server.HtmlEncode(htmlString);
Response.Write(htmlEncoded);
// This will print: <b>Hello world!</b>

You may want to Html encode a string before showing any user input on the page

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