How to make a WPF TextBox use password characters?

Question

hi,

i need to set it it dynamicaliy..

Can i make password Box to as normal text- i mean- user could see the text what he entered.???

its for-> i need to use same control for " password sesion" and also the "item count entering" session ..??

Answer 1

You have to use PasswordBox instead of TextBox

<PasswordBox Height="42" Width="200"  Margin="22,28,28,0" 
         Name="passwordBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" 
         Background="LightBlue" Foreground="DarkBlue" 
         MaxLength="25" PasswordChar="*" 
         />

Answer 2

There's a new control in WPF designed for passwords, it's called PasswordBox. You should use that instead of a textbox if you need to mask the input.

Here's a brief article about it. To retrieve the value that was entered, use the Password property.

EDIT: You've pretty much asked a new question - how can you unmask the text in a WPF PasswordBox? To the best of my knowledge you can't, though you could of course display it in a regular TextBox on demand by getting the value of the password from PasswordBox.Password

Databinding to a PasswordBox isn't possible without a custom helper class - though this would reduce the increased security offered by the new PasswordBox control (as described here). With that considered, this article includes a section on creating a helper class that allows you to databind to a PasswordBox.