Why is my textbox text inserting raw text to table?

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i am getting a value from a table and displaying it in a label, then inserting the label.text into a table in the database.

This is what the label displays:
AFCO FLUTED ROUND WRAP COLUMNS 6"X10' W/ SPLIT C&B

which is correct, but when i insert the label.text to database it looks like this:
AFCO FLUTED ROUND WRAP COLUMNS 6quot;X10' W/ SPLIT Camp;B

its converting the text to raw? why is this? and how can i fix it?

Posted 17-Oct-12 8:22am

PTG.Jake

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fjdiewornncalwe · Answer 1 · 2012-10-17T08:55:00

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It isn't converting to "raw". It is encoding your text so that your query doesn't break.
I'm guessing your using a query something like

C#

var query = "INSERT INTO YourTable ... VALUES( " + yourValue + ")";

You should be using a paramatarized query where this will be taken care of.

C#

command.CommandText = "INSERT INTO YourTable ... VALUES( @yourValue )"; 
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@yourValue", yourValueFromLabel);

Posted 17-Oct-12 8:55am

fjdiewornncalwe

Updated 17-Oct-12 8:57am

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PTG.Jake 17-Oct-12 15:49pm

Marcus, I tried that, but it still enters into the table encoded text.

fjdiewornncalwe 17-Oct-12 16:20pm

If that is the case then I'm guessing if you debug the code where you pull the value from the table to insert into the label, you are going to see that encoded quote in there already. You may want to run the value through HtmlDecode first then.