Sanitizes a given string into a slug-friendly form.

SanitizeString.cs

/// <summary>
/// Cleans up a given string into a slug-friendly form.
/// Strips special characters and replaces spaces with hyphens.
/// 
/// Given something like "The Quick Fox Don't Like No Guff!" return "The-Quick-Fox-Dont-Like-No-Guff"
/// 
/// Borrowed from WordPress.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="str">The string to be sanitized</param>
/// <returns>A sanitized string</returns>
public static string SanitizeString(string str)
{
    str = str.Replace(' ', '-');
    List<string> specialChars = new List<string>(){
        "?", "[", "]", "/", "\\", "=", "<", ">", ":", ";", ",", "'", "\"", "&", "$", "#", "*", "(", ")", "|", "~", "`", "!", "{", "}"
    };
    
    foreach (string ch in specialChars)
        str = str.Replace(ch, string.Empty);

    str = str.Trim();
    
    return str;
}