ConnectionString password - XML escaping

I have a strong password that I am having some trouble to put it on my web.config:

So my web.config entry is:

<add name="MyConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=tcp:xxxxxx.database.windows.net,1433;Initial Catalog=MyDatabase;MultipleActiveResultSets=true;User ID=xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx;Password=MyPassword" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

And my strong password is:

<=#}U}2{p^07>7u10)'*g7|5=96!;a1F2="=!,}7;65\3{9P0w(#/]${06|S /L2=l{0[2E32+78AJ|@;9}$N=|(0s9,=\N|o+t

So the issue is related with some character that need to be escaped, but I tried with no success to escape it using single quotes.

Thanks