URL Encode from class

Have you come across a situation, where you set the query parameters, but want to check for null values, and then URL encode the value, heres a function that can be added to a common utilities class that can be called from your application to URL Encode the value, if null empty string is returned.

''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' URL Encode the object
''' </summary>
''' <param name="value"></param>
''' <returns>URL Encoded string>/returns>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' [K. Gopi] 8/25/2005 Created
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Function URLEncode(ByVal value As Object) As String
  Try
   If (value Is Nothing) OrElse (value Is DBNull.Value) Then
     Return String.Empty
   Else
     Return Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Convert.ToString(value))
   End If
  Catch
   Return String.Empty
 End Try
End Function