ValidatePasswordEventArgs.Cancel Property
Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the current create-user, change-password, or reset-password action will be canceled.
Assembly: System.Web.ApplicationServices (in System.Web.ApplicationServices.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Booleantrue if the current create-user, change-password, or reset-password action will be canceled; otherwise, false. The default is false.
The Cancel property is used to cancel the current CreateUser, ChangePassword, or ResetPassword action. You can cancel the current action by setting the Cancel property to true during the ValidatingPassword event.
If you cancel the current action by setting the Cancel property to true, you can set the FailureInformation property to an exception that describes the reason for the password-validation failure. The calling method will throw the exception that the FailureInformation property is set to. If the FailureInformation property is null, the caller will throw a generic password-validation failure exception.
The following code example shows a ValidatingPassword event that validates the format of the password for the user and cancels the action if the password does not match the required format.
Public Sub Page_Load() AddHandler Membership.ValidatingPassword, _ New MembershipValidatePasswordEventHandler(AddressOf OnValidatePassword) End Sub Public Sub OnValidatePassword(sender As Object, _ args As ValidatePasswordEventArgs) Dim r As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex = _ New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("(?=.{6,})(?=(.*\d){1,})(?=(.*\W){1,})") If Not r.IsMatch(args.Password) Then args.FailureInformation = _ New HttpException("Password must be at least 6 characters long and " & _ "contain at least one number and one special character.") args.Cancel = True End If End Sub
Available since 2.0