SecureString Constructor ()

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Initializes a new instance of the SecureString class.

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

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public:
SecureString()

Exception Condition
CryptographicException

An error occurred while protecting or unprotecting the value of this instance.

NotSupportedException

This operation is not supported on this platform.

Win2kFamily

SecureString is only supported on Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and later.

The following example uses the default (or parameterless) constructor to instantiate a new SecureString object. It then calls the AppendChar method to add an array of characters to it.

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using namespace System;
using namespace System::Security;

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
   // Define the string value to assign to a new secure string.
   Char chars[4] = { 't', 'e', 's', 't' };
   // Instantiate the secure string.
   SecureString^ testString = gcnew SecureString();
   // Assign the character array to the secure string.
   for each (Char ch in chars)
   {
      testString->AppendChar(ch);
   }   
   // Display secure string length.
   Console::WriteLine("The length of the string is {0} characters.", 
                        testString->Length);

   delete testString;
   return 0;
}
// The example displays the following output:
//      The length of the string is 4 characters.

The following example creates a SecureString object from the value of a String object.

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using namespace System;
using namespace System::Security;

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
   // Define the string value to be assigned to the secure string.
   String^ initString = "TestString";
   // Instantiate the secure string.
   SecureString^ testString = gcnew SecureString();
   // Assign the character array to the secure string.
   for each (Char ch in initString)
   {
      testString->AppendChar(ch);
   }   
   // Display secure string length.
   Console::WriteLine("The length of the string is {0} characters.", 
                        testString->Length);

   delete testString;
   return 0;
}
// The example displays the following output:
//      The length of the string is 10 characters.

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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