Convert text into password

Question

How do i convert a text into password?

ie. While logging into windows, we are entering our password character by character. how each characters are converted into * ?

i dont know how to do this? pls help me.

 

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AmaranShiva

Answer 1

You don`t need to do this at all. Just put a TextBox control on your form and set the PasswordChar property to "*"

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Hannes

If you have got questions about this, just ask.

In a perfect world,
users would never enter data in the wrong form,
files they choose to open would always exist
and code would never have bugs.

C# to VB.NET: http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/

Answer 2

Thank u  jordan. 

How do i convert password into text ?

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AmaranShiva

Answer 3

thanks for ur reply.  

i am creating a console application.  At there i need to convert the text into password. ie each character into password symbol 

 

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AmaranShiva

Answer 4

AmaranShiva,

you can just take the value of the Text property. This "password" stuff is only about visualibility ( only showing the passwordchars ) it doesn`t change the real value of the typed characters.

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Hannes

If you have got questions about this, just ask.

In a perfect world,
users would never enter data in the wrong form,
files they choose to open would always exist
and code would never have bugs.

C# to VB.NET: http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/

Answer 5

you are telling the main problem in the end and all are answering in other sense.

Console is different than text box.

check following code

Dim myPass As String

 

If key.Key <> ConsoleKey.Backspace Then

 myPass = myPass + key.KeyChar

 Console.Write("*")

Else

 If myPass.Length > 0 Then

 myPass = myPass.Substring(0, (myPass.Length - 1))

Console.Write(vbBack & " " & vbBack)

End If

End If

 

 

 

Hope it will give you some idea .

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Want to add MVP with my name.

Answer 6

if you look in the code of the login template it should have this link that tells you how not to use it but it explains most of that sort of stuff

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172766.aspx