You’ll need to use escape sequences like you would for any XML document, which is all the .config files are.
- Ampersand = & =
&
- Greater Than = > =
>
- Less Than = < =
<
- Apostrophe=” =
'
- Quote = ” =
"
You can also use the CDATA
tag so that you can use these illegal characters
<![CDATA[
and ends with ]]>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="MyEntities" connectionString="
metadata=res://*/MyDataModel.csdl|res://*/MyDataModel.ssdl|res://*/MyDataModel.msl;
provider=System.Data.SqlClient;
provider connection string="
Data Source=localhost\DEV;
Initial Catalog=MyDB;UserId=myUser;
Password=<![CDATA[jack&jill]]>;
MultipleActiveResultSets=True""
providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
</connectionStrings>