The IServer::HTMLEncode method applies HTML encoding to the specified string. For more information, see the HTMLEncode method of the Server object.
HRESULT HTMLEncode(
BSTR bstrIn, //binary string that contains the text
//to be encoded
BSTR * pbstrEncoded //pointer to a binary string that receives
//the encoded text
);
If your component returns the encoded text to a browser, the browser will display it in HTML format, rather than in plain text. For example, if the bstrIn contained the following string, < >, the pbstrEncoded parameter would contain the HTML code for those characters, < >. If your component returned this to a browser, however, it would display it as < >.