Hi Pritcham,
Thanks for replying to my message, but the example in the MSDN blog
seems to be describing a Whidbey (VB.NET 2005) sample and I'm currently
using VB.NET 2003. The code on there doesn't make any sense to me.
Could you possibly convert this to VB.NEt 2003 for me? I just need the
masking part from below such as:
while(nextKey.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter)
{
if(nextKey.Key == ConsoleKey.BackSpace)
{
if(password.Length 0)
{
password.RemoveAt(password.Length - 1);
// erase the last * as well
Console.Write(nextKey.KeyChar);
Console.Write(" ");
Console.Write(nextKey.KeyChar);
}
}
else
{
password.AppendChar(nextKey.KeyChar);
Console.Write("*");
}
nextKey = Console.ReadKey(true);
}
.... and below is the full example:
public static SecureString GetPassword()
{
SecureString password = new SecureString();
// get the first character of the password
ConsoleKeyInfo nextKey = Console.ReadKey(true);
while(nextKey.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter)
{
if(nextKey.Key == ConsoleKey.BackSpace)
{
if(password.Length 0)
{
password.RemoveAt(password.Length - 1);
// erase the last * as well
Console.Write(nextKey.KeyChar);
Console.Write(" ");
Console.Write(nextKey.KeyChar);
}
}
else
{
password.AppendChar(nextKey.KeyChar);
Console.Write("*");
}
nextKey = Console.ReadKey(true);
}
Console.WriteLine();
// lock the password down
password.MakeReadOnly();
return password
}
Pritcham wrote:
Hi Julian
One of the comments in the codeproject entry you've listed points to a
blog entry that does exactly what you're asking for using SecureString
- take a look at
http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archiv...27/143254.aspx which
seems to be what you're after.
hope that helps
Martin
ju*********@hotmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Currently I'm writing a VB.NET/1.1 app and I need to mask the input for
the password field. Does anyone know how to do this in VB? I've seen a
C# example, but wouldn't know how to convert it myself. Here's the URL:
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Co...swordInput.asp