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CreateUserWizard.PasswordRegularExpressionErrorMessage Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets or sets the error message shown when the password entered does not conform to the site's password requirements.

public:
 virtual property System::String ^ PasswordRegularExpressionErrorMessage { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };
public virtual string PasswordRegularExpressionErrorMessage { get; set; }
member this.PasswordRegularExpressionErrorMessage : string with get, set
Public Overridable Property PasswordRegularExpressionErrorMessage As String

Property Value

String

The error message shown when the password entered does not pass the regular expression defined in the PasswordRegularExpression property. The default is "Please enter a different password." The default text for the control is localized based on the server's current locale.

Examples

The following code example sets the PasswordRequiredErrorMessage property to explain to the user that the password entered does not meet the requirements of the regular expression contained in the PasswordRegularExpression property. To pass the regular expression, passwords must:

  • Be longer than six characters.

  • Contain at least one digit.

  • Contain at least one special (non-alphanumeric) character.

<%@ page language="C#"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>CreateUserWizard.PasswordRegularExpression sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
      <asp:createuserwizard id="Createuserwizard1" runat="server" 
        passwordregularexpression='@\"(?:.{7,})(?=(.*\d){1,})(?=(.*\W){1,})'
        passwordregularexpressionerrormessage="Your password must be 7 characters long, and contain at least one number and one special character.">
      </asp:createuserwizard>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

<%@ page language="VB"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>CreateUserWizard.PasswordRegularExpression sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
      <asp:createuserwizard id="Createuserwizard1" runat="server" 
        passwordregularexpression='@\"(?:.{7,})(?=(.*\d){1,})(?=(.*\W){1,})'
        passwordregularexpressionerrormessage="Your password must be 7 characters long, and contain at least one number and one special character.">
      </asp:createuserwizard>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Remarks

Use the PasswordRegularExpressionErrorMessage property to inform the user that the password entered did not conform to the site's password requirements.

Applies to

See also