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PasswordBox.Password Property

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Gets or sets the password currently held by the PasswordBox.

Namespace: System.Windows.Controls
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)

public string Password { get; set; }

XAML Attribute Usage

<PasswordBox Password="string"/>

Property Value

Type: System.String
A string representing the password currently held by the PasswordBox.
The default value is Empty.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	The property is set to a null value.

Remarks

Setting this property to a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) causes the underlying password to be set to Empty.

Examples

The following code snippet sets the password to "HelloWorld" using the Password property. This example is part of a larger example available in the PasswordBox class overview.

Security Note:
Avoid hard-coding a password within your source code.

XAML


<TextBlock Text="PasswordChar demonstration" Margin="20,10,0,0"/>
<PasswordBox x:Name="MyPWBox2" Margin="20,10,0,0" Height="35" Width="200" Password="HelloWorld" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
<PasswordBox x:Name="MyPWBox3" Margin="20,10,0,0" Height="35" Width="200" Password="HelloWorld" PasswordChar="$" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>