Microsoft.Build.Engine 2.0.0.0 System.Object To be added. Contains utility methods used by vstecmsbuild. This class cannot be inherited. Method System.String Certain characters have special meaning in vstecmsbuild project files. Examples of the characters include semicolons (;) and asterisks (*). In order to use these special characters as literals, they must be specified with the syntax %nn, where nn represents the ASCII hexadecimal value of the character. This method performs that conversion. Converts the specified string into a syntax that allows the vstecmsbuild engine to interpret the character literally. The converted value of the specified string. The string to convert. 2.0.0.0