I just joined a team working on a large-scale VB.NET/ASP.NET app and I have an issue: when I am using VB.NET to spit out some Javascript, my ampersands won't stay as ampersands once the page is generated - they turn into & instead. Is there any way to force those ampersands to stay as plain ol' & signs?

Are you writing the javascript to a control attribute? .NET escapes out certain characters when you put them in attributes. I'd suggest moving the javascript into the head of the page or a .js file in a function, and put the function call in the attribute. Depending on how much this chunk is repeated this will also help to optimize the html weight.

-Peter

Peter,

Do you know of any 'escape sequences' that can be used to tell .NET, “See here! I meant what I [u]said</u>!”?

Not off hand. Can you post the code for this problem? There might be another fix depending on what you are doing with the code.

-Peter