Problem with ampersand when I use webservices

Kaiawaia

Hi,

I have the following problem: I've created a c# class library that use the NAV webservice of the Contact page. If I use the "Create" method of the the Contact_Service I have to pass a Contact object. In this object the name property has a value with an ampersand in the string. E.g. "Test & Company". If I look in NAV after execution of the Create method I have as a result the following contact name: "Test &Company".
It deletes the whitespaces after the ampersand and I don't know why. I've tried to replace the & with & because of XML restrictions but then I get "Test & Company". Can anybody help me?

Regards,
Kai

freddy.dk

Strange

I can confirm that it deletes the spaces after & - and I can confirm that this bug will be fixed in SP1.
I have no idea why this happens.

One way to avoid the removal is to insert a non-blank space instead of a space (character 160) - but that might have other implications to your app - I have no really good solution to this problem.

Kaiawaia

Hi,

thanks for that info. The character 160 works for my solution. I can use it for my purpose. Thank you.

Regards,
Kai