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ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.PasswordFormat Property

Gets a value indicating the format of passwords in the Active Directory data store.

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

public override MembershipPasswordFormat PasswordFormat { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Web.Security.MembershipPasswordFormat
One of the MembershipPasswordFormat values. The PasswordFormat property always returns Hashed.

The ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider property does not support password retrieval. The behavior of the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider object is the same as other providers working with Hashed passwords.

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.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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