XmlTextWriter.WriteCharEntity Method forces the generation of a character entity for the specified Unicode character value.
Imports System Imports System.Xml public class Sample public shared sub Main() Dim writer as XmlTextWriter = nothing try writer = new XmlTextWriter (Console.Out) writer.WriteStartElement("address") writer.WriteString("someone") writer.WriteCharEntity("@"c) writer.WriteString("example") writer.WriteCharEntity("."c) writer.WriteString("com") writer.WriteEndElement() finally if not writer is nothing writer.Close() end if end try end sub end class