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PasswordBox.Password Property

May 02, 2013

Gets or sets the password currently held by the PasswordBox.

Namespace: System.Windows.Controls
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)
XMLNS for XAML: Not mapped to an xmlns.

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property Password As String

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 Nothing value.

Remarks

Setting this property to a Nothing 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="70" Width="200" 
             Password="HelloWorld" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
<PasswordBox x:Name="MyPWBox3" Margin="20,10,0,0" Height="70" Width="200" 
             Password="HelloWorld" PasswordChar="$" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>

Version Information

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

Platforms

Windows Phone

Reference

PasswordBox Class

System.Windows.Controls Namespace

TextBox

TextBlock

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