MembershipProvider.MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters Property (System.Web.Security)

.NET Framework Class Library

MembershipProvider..::.MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters Property

Gets the minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.

Namespace: System.Web.Security
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters As Integer

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim instance As MembershipProvider
Dim value As Integer

value = instance.MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters

public abstract int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { get; }

Visual C++

public:
virtual property int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters {
    int get () abstract;
}

JScript

public abstract function get MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters () : int

Property Value

Type: System..::.Int32
The minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.

Remarks

The MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters property returns the minimum number of special, non-alphabetic characters that must be entered to create a valid password for the MembershipProvider object.

The MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters property value is set in the application configuration using the minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters attribute of the membership Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) configuration element.

A non-alphanumeric character is a character for which the IsLetterOrDigit method returns false.

Examples

The following example shows the membership Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) configuration element in the system.web section of the application's Web.config file. It specifies that the application use an instance of the SqlMembershipProvider class to provide membership services, and sets the minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters attribute to 1 character.

<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider"
  userIsOnlineTimeWindow = "20>
  <providers>
    <add
      name="SqlProvider"
      type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
      connectionStringName="SqlServices"
      requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
      minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1"
      />
  </providers>
</membership>

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Reference

MembershipProvider Class

MembershipProvider Members

System.Web.Security Namespace

Other Resources

Introduction to Membership