title: Prevent C# from encoding an equal sign
body: <ul>
  <li>I am working on an AngularJS (i.e. Angular 1) website with an ASP.NET MVC backend.</li>
  <li>I have an anchor tag with <code>&lt;a href=</code>.</li>
  <li>The base URL is coming from my <code>app.config</code>.</li>
  <li>I need to append parameters to the url, however the equal sign is being encoded as <code>%3F</code>.</li>
  <li>I am looking for a simple way to prevent this from happening.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>The line in question:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;a href=&quot;@(System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[&quot;BaseUrl&quot;] + &quot;?email=test&amp;name=test&quot;)&quot;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>What is the easiest way to force the equal sign to actually show up as an equal sign in the link? Since this is an Angular project I am limited on what C# I can use here.</p>
  <p>UPDATE: I don't know why but a forward slash is being inserted between the AppSetting and the query string. Why is that being added and how do I prevent it from being added?</p>