Need <, >, & in an XML-Message? Use the XML escape characters!

For Errors like this in SoapUI?


Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20.

Then please try escaping the critical characters!

Have a look here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-in-xml-documents


"   &quot;
'   &apos;
<   &lt;
>   &gt;
&   &amp;


https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input

C# Defining Application/User Settings: appSettings Vs. ApplicationSettings

Basically there are two WAYs to define settings for a C# Application:

Manually update the app.config xml file (and access the properties via ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["key1"]; )

<appSettings>
 <add key="key1" value="value1"/>
 <add key="key2" value="value2"/>
</appSettings>

Or you can Select your Project, then Properties and Settings:

( access the properties in the code with Properties.Settings.Default.TestEnvironment)

<applicationSettings>
    <Projectname.Properties.Settings>
        <setting name="TestEnvironment" serializeAs="String">
            <value>True</value>
        </setting>
    </Projectname.Properties.Settings>
</applicationSettings>

References:

• stackoverflow.com #1
• stackoverflow.com #2