Problem with Substring() - ArgumentOutOfRangeException

Question

I have a repeater that displays data from my Projects table. There are projectId, name and description. I use Substring(1, 240) on description. But sometimes the string is s

Answer 1

An extension method:

public static string SafeSubstring(this string text, int start, int length)
{
   if (start >= text.Length)
      return "";            
   if (start + length > text.Length)
      length = text.Length - start;         
   return text.Substring(start, length);
}