Removing special characters from a textbox in vb.net

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Can someone help me remove special characters from my textbox so that it will no longer throw a error code such as this one

{HttpRequestValidationException (0x80004005): A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (tb1="").]

Posted 9-Jul-12 11:05am

Alby3k

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Jul-12 17:21pm

First, where is your code sample which causes this problem? Please understand that now, during a season of vacations, my access to your hard drive is somewhat limited. :-)
And what do you call the "special characters"?
--SA

Alby3k 9-Jul-12 17:35pm

I am currently using no code to strip special characters, that is why I am getting the error message. I consider special characters to be like "<>+&%". I understand that regex would probably be the best method, but I have yet been able to get it to work for me.

[no name] 9-Jul-12 17:39pm

Maybe you should investigate the String.Remove() method.

Alby3k 9-Jul-12 17:42pm

I'm very new to programming, could you give me an example as to how I would use it to control a standard textbox on a webform in VB.

SoMad 9-Jul-12 19:30pm

I believe Wes suggests you use String.Remove()[^] on the string before you put the string into your textbox.

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