Silverlight Controls and Silverlight Toolkit

Re: PasswordBox Control

mhaggag — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:23:53 GMT

The reason PasswordBox is a separate control is that it's conceptually different from a TextBox--for example, the WPF PasswordBox stores the password in an encrypted string, doesn't support Copy/Cut, and has a different API to that of a normal TextBox. We follow WPF for compatibility (but we don't have encrypted storage so far).

As for the PasswordChar property in Blend, can't help with that, sorry. Can you open a new thread for that with "Blend" on the title? That way folks with Blend experience can chime in.

Re: PasswordBox Control

GearWorld — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:18:30 GMT

Now that RC0 has the PasswordBox. I'm happy like a baby :) Works like a charm
But I didn't see any PasswordChar property available in Blend 2 yet

Re: PasswordBox Control

DevTricks — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:21:04 GMT

The 0 lines of code way : http://silverlight.net/forums/p/22876/80771.aspx

enjoy :)

Re: PasswordBox Control

GearWorld — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:47:27 GMT

Yeah PasswordChar that's great but not a nother control called PasswordBox. Comon, just let us use TextBox having the PasswordChar property.
That's what I was trying to say why the use of another control just for that ?

Re: PasswordBox Control

mhaggag — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:38:34 GMT

Yes, the PasswordChar property exists. The Silverlight PasswordBox API is almost identical to that of WPF PasswordBox.

Re: PasswordBox Control

GearWorld — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:38:11 GMT

Hope they'll just make a property which we can just set the caracter we want for the mask
Don't make another control please.

Re: PasswordBox Control

doolittle — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:45:47 GMT

For the moment Silverlight does not have a PasswordTextBox 'out of the box'.
You have some options if you want one:

- Get some third party controls (from componentone for instance)
- Use the class from this forum post (link to version a few posts higher...)
- Wait for the next release of Silverlight (and prey it will contain a PasswordTextBox)

Re: PasswordBox Control

josh100 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:23:34 GMT

hi,

i can use in this PasswordTextBox just in code behind?

how do i make the textbox from xaml to behave like PasswordTextBox?

thanks.

Re: PasswordBox Control

tomhat — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:51:05 GMT

Note that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 removed the WatermarkedTextbox. If you try to use the WatermarkedTextbox by inheriting to it you will get a compiler error from the ValidateXaml task.

Re: PasswordBox Control

mhaggag — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:05:22 GMT

There will be a PasswordBox control in RTM, similar to that of WPF.

Re: PasswordBox Control

crpietschmann — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:21:11 GMT

I just tested my PasswordTextBox code in Silverlight 2 Beta 2, and it works just the same as it did in Beta 1.

Make sure you copy the code from the following link instead of the forum post above, so you get the latest code. Also, I have both C# and VB.NET versions of it listed at the link below.

http://pietschsoft.com/post/2008/03/PasswordTextBox-for-Silverlight-2-Beta-1.aspx

Re: PasswordBox Control

crpietschmann — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:20:23 GMT

I see the TextBox control in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 still doesn't support Passwords. I really hope this makes it into the RTM. Anyway, at least we can still use the code posted above. I haven't tried it in SL2B2 yet, but I'll test it out when I get a chance to see if any changes are needed.

Re: PasswordBox Control

codereaver — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:30 GMT

This was great help also I inherited from watermarkedTextBox instead of Textbox to get the watermarked text in the box. and this is working great thanks.

Re: Re: PasswordBox Control

doolittle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:41:13 GMT

Ah sorry, that I wasn't clear in the description of my problem.

I'm using an 'Employee' object and that object has a property 'Password'.

In my UI I've bound this property to the 'Text' property of the Passwordbox control. But the content of my Employee.Password then becomes for instance '***' when you've typed three characters for the password. Instead of the actual value...

Re: PasswordBox Control

crpietschmann — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:36:59 GMT

doolittle:

Hello

Great stuff, but I have a rather odd problem for which I don't see the solution.

I have a business object that contains a password property. And I've bound this property (twoway) to a PasswordBox control.

But as value I of course get a string of 'password-char', as the dependency property 'Text' is changed...

Do you see a simple solution to fix this??? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Thx a lot!!

Could you re-explain the problem you are having? I'm not understanding what the problem is you are having, from your explanation above.

Thanks