How can i change the PasswordBox?

Question

Please how can i change the asterisk of a passwordbox to char ( i will use a checkbox to show or hide the value of password) in c# when the checkbox is cheked the password box change to be like a textbox with keeping the value inside

Is this web, winforms, or WPF, or... ? – Sam Axe Mar 10 '14 at 10:37 — Sam Axe, Mar 10 '14 at 10:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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To achieve this you have to mask the password character.

Please refer this.

how can i unmask c# password textbox and mask it back to password

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Mar 10 '14 at 10:39

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 11:01

Introduction

It is not clear that what you want, or what are you making in, VB or C#. But for your comfort I have written in both, as far as I understood.

Code And Example

In C#

To assign PasswordChar:

TextBox2.PasswordChar = "*";

OR

TextBox2.PasswordChar = "☻";

To remove PasswordChar:

TextBox2.PasswordChar = "";

In VB.net:

To assign PasswordChar:

TextBox2.PasswordChar = "*"

OR

TextBox2.PasswordChar = "☻"

To remove PasswordChar:

TextBox2.PasswordChar = ""

Explanation

You can assign whatever password char you want to in double quotes ahead of PasswordChar property of textbox. To remove PasswordChar there should be no value in the double quotes about which we talked above.

I hope it's clear and works perfectly!

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 11:02

Use a Textbox instead and change its property yourTextBox.UseSystemPasswordChar - set it to false if you wish to see the text. If you want to use a checkbox to control that, you can use something like:

Private Sub yourCheckbox_CheckedChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles yourCheckbox.CheckedChanged

        If (yourCheckbox.Checked = true) then

            yourTextBox.UseSystemPasswordChar = true

        Else

            yourTextBox.UseSystemPasswordChar = false

        End If

 End Sub

This is VB.Net, but in case you are looking for C#, the corresponding code should be pretty easy to infer.