Ampersand in module description causes failure to load projects

[W6HBR]

The inclusion of the ampersand in a module description causes each project of the solution to fail to load.
Example description: "Lookup & reporting module".

Trying to manually load the project will return the error:
The project file could not be loaded. An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 8, position 32.

Manually editing the project file and changing the offending character will resolve the issue.

[thabaum]

Have you tested using & instead of & see if it works?

[sbwalker]

@W6HBR Thank you for reporting. The fields in the module and theme creator will either need validation or encoding to prevent this from happening.

[W6HBR]

@thabaum
Yes, that does work, but it wouldn't be intuitive for people to type their description that way. It needs to be encoded before saving.

[sbwalker]

@W6HBR the *.csproj file is an XML file so rather than encoding invalid XML characters I opted to validate the field and only allow alphanumeric characters and spaces.