MembershipProvider.MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters Property
Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)
'Declaration Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters As Integer 'Usage Dim instance As MembershipProvider Dim value As Integer value = instance.MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters
/** @property */ public abstract int get_MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters ()
public abstract function get MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters () : int
Not applicable.
Property Value
The minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.The MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters property returns the minimum number of special, non-alphabetic characters that must be entered to create a valid password for the MembershipProvider object.
The MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters property value is set in the application configuration using the minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters attribute of the membership Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) configuration element.
A non-alphanumeric character is a character for which the IsLetterOrDigit method returns false.
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 SqlMembershipProvider class to provide membership services, and sets the minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters attribute to 1 character.
<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider"
userIsOnlineTimeWindow = "20>
<providers>
<add
name="SqlProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
connectionStringName="SqlServices"
requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1"
/>
</providers>
</membership>