[spyke01]

Hi everyone im working on getting an excellent function together for encoding symbols to ascii, the issue im having is that i get an error stating: Name 'Server' is not declared. I have the htmlencode function working on another page, so i tried adding Inherits System.Web.UI.Page to the class but then i get this error: Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method or a shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class.

This file is imported by all the page vb files since it contains several other functions that theyll need its name and code are below:

app_code/functions.vb

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Web
Imports Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data
Imports Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.Sql
 
Public Class functions
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
    '===================================================================
    ' Helper function to encode characters, this will be used with the 
    ' special helper functions that accomodate DAAB, use these functions 
    ' everytime data hits a database or is printed to the screen. 
    ' Preferablly as soon as you get the data and before any checkers
    '===================================================================
    Public Shared Function makeSafe(ByVal strToSanitize As String) As String
        Dim sanitizedStr As String
 
        ' Convert symbols into ascii
        sanitizedStr = Replace(strToSanitize, ";", ";")
        sanitizedStr = Server.HtmlEncode(sanitizedStr)
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, "'", "'")
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, """", """)
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, "-", "-")
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, "+", "+")
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, "=", "=")
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, ":", ":")
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, "(", "(")
        sanitizedStr = Replace(sanitizedStr, ")", ")")
 
        Return sanitizedStr
    End Function 

Any ideas on how to fix the errors?

if this is just a functions class then you dont need the inherits. below is a snipet of one of mine

Public Class SharedFunction
    Shared Function SanitizeSQL(ByVal strInput As String) As String
        Return strInput.Replace("'", "''").Replace("--", "-")
    End Function
end class 

[FreelanceMan]

You're using the wrong HtmlEncode method. You want to use HttpUtility.HtmlEncode instead, because that's the static/shared version of the routine. Then you can pull out all the extra Imports that are messing with your shared function.