ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.MinRequiredPasswordLength Property

Gets the minimum length required for a password.

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

'Declaration
Public Overrides ReadOnly Property MinRequiredPasswordLength As Integer
'Usage
Dim instance As ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider
Dim value As Integer

value = instance.MinRequiredPasswordLength

/** @property */
public int get_MinRequiredPasswordLength ()

public override function get MinRequiredPasswordLength () : int

Not applicable.

Property Value

The minimum length required for a password.

Exception typeCondition

InvalidOperationException

The MinRequiredPasswordLength property is accessed before the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider instance is initialized.

The MinRequiredPasswordLength property gets the minimum number of characters that must be entered to create a valid password.

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

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 ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider class to provide membership services, and sets the minRequiredPasswordLength attribute to seven characters.

<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="ADService" connectionString="LDAP://ldapServer/" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <system.web>
    <membership defaultProvider="AspNetActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider">
      <providers>
        <add name="AspNetActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider" 
          type="System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider, 
          System.Web, Version=2.0.3600, Culture=neutral, 
          PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
          minRequiredPasswordLength = "7" />

      </providers>
    </membership>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0

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