TextMode problem...

[Sheffield]

Greetings,

I'm displaying the results from an query into a series of TextBoxes. One field is a user's password, where it has the Input Mask property in MS-Access set to 'Password'. When the table is viewed in Access, all entries in this field (user passwords) are 'masked' with asterisks '*'.

However, on the ASP.NET page, the alphanumeric text of the password is displayed clearly visible (no asterisks).

I'm converting a ColdFusion app to ASP.NET. Suprisingly, ColdFusion doesn't have a problem with this and correctly displays the asterisks. I'm a dot.net beginner, so I'm sure I'm unaware of something here. I initially thought I could set the TextMode property to 'password' but that only works for keystrokes into the TextBox.

Can somebody please clue me in?



Thanks

 

[Isadore]

Sheff: sounds like a reverse problem you have here. I suppose it is important that the "number of dots" are the same (as if someone is going to count them?). I would just populate a hidden text box with the password; and then do a simple Lenght count and add a dummy number of dots to your displayed textbox (carry this out On Page Load). Just an idea. Something like...

Dim strPWord As String
Dim intCt As integer
intCt = Len(txtRealPassword.Text)
For i = 0 to intCt
strPWord += "*"
Next

..something simple like that. I do not off hand know of a a way to convert Password text into regular text.

 

[BG12424]

Or, you can use Regular Expression to take care of it:

Dim s As String = "br2ia5n"
Dim objRegex As Regex
txtPassword.Text = objRegex.Replace(s, "\w", "*&quot

...but make sure that your TextMode property is not set to Password.


regards,
Brian

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