HTML Entity Decoding

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VB.NET example source code to decode HTML entities.

        ' HtmlDecode sample program
        ' Decode HTML entities to Unicode characters.

        Dim cset As New Chilkat.Charset()
        ' Unlock once at the beginning of a program.
        cset.UnlockComponent("anything for 30-day trial")

        Dim eStr1 As String
        eStr1 = "Cent Sign: ¢ Pound Sign: £"
        ' NOTE: Numeric references in the 0-255 range are assumed to be iso-8859-1 character references.
        ' Numeric references greater than (decimal) 255 are assumed to be Unicode references.
        Dim eStr2 As String
        eStr2 = "Latin capital letter A with acute: Á Á Á"
        Dim eStr3 As String
        eStr3 = "Examples of numeric character references include © or © for the copyright symbol, Γ or Γ for the Greek capital letter gamma, and ذ or ذ for the Arabic letter THAL."

        TextBox1.Text = cset.HtmlEntityDecode(eStr1)
        TextBox2.Text = cset.HtmlEntityDecode(eStr2)
        TextBox3.Text = cset.HtmlEntityDecode(eStr3)