Decode javascript-encoded string in c#

Question

Hey, here’s the deal. On the site that I’m building, I write information in the database, this information is a json, to be able to send this data to the database, I code it by javascript like this:

encodeURI(dados);

After that I send via jquery and write to the database..

So far all beauty, only that I need to recover this data in a windows Forms software, in c#, I am looking for a way to decode this information, I tried that:

using System;
using System.Net;

...
Conecto ao banco de dados, pego a informação do jeito que está la em um string, e peço pra mostrar numa show box
MessageBox.Show(WebUtility.HtmlDecode(pedidos));

Except that it is not decoding, the result is still coming back the same is in the database, all encoded as if it were a URI

%5B%0A%09%7B%0A%09%09%22id%22%3A%221%22%2C%0A%09%09%22produto%22%3A%22VENEZA%22%2C%0A%09%09%22preco%22%3A%2242.00%22%2C%0A%09%09%22quantidade%22%3A1%0A%09%7D%0A%5D

Answer 1

Try to use the HttpUtility.UrlDecode library System.Web

String teste = "%5B%0A%09%7B%0A%09%09%22id%22%3A%221%22%2C%0A%09%09%22produto%22%3A%22VENEZA%22%2C%0A%09%09%22preco%22%3A%2242.00%22%2C%0A%09%09%22quantidade%22%3A1%0A%09%7D%0A%5D";

Console.WriteLine(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(teste));

Return:

[
    {
        "id":"1",
        "produto":"VENEZA",
        "preco":"42.00",
        "quantidade":1
    }
]

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