Password Mask in InputBox

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I need to show an inputbox before opening a form so as to hide it from others. I want the text of the inputbox to be a password character (*).

How to accomplish?

Posted 15-Dec-12 17:39pm

Anaya Upadhyay

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[no name] 15-Dec-12 23:43pm

Elaborate your question...
-Krunal R.

Anaya Upadhyay 16-Dec-12 4:32am

I want an asterisk while typing in my Inputbox.

Is it clear enough?

haggenx 10-Oct-20 10:03am

You must create your own dialog to create an inputbox that allows a password field.

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Liju Sankar · Answer 1 · 2012-12-15T18:34:00

Solution 1

Please try TextBox2.PasswordChar property

Please refer this link for a sample app.

http://dotnetdud.blogspot.in/2009/06/how-to-mask-password-text-in-textboxes.html[^]

If you are not looking for this, please elaborate your scenario ...

Posted 15-Dec-12 18:34pm

Liju Sankar

Ashok19r91d · Answer 2 · 2012-12-16T19:05:00

Solution 3

If I understand clearly, my Answer is
Just Design Your OWN input box, Display the same whenever necessary,
Use

VB

frmInputBox.ShowDialog()

to Show Form as Dialog box...

Posted 16-Dec-12 19:05pm

Ashok19r91d

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Anaya Upadhyay 17-Dec-12 2:58am

Okay i agree to your answer, but it's for one use so i don't think this would be effective.
Please suggest any other ideas...

Ashok19r91d 17-Dec-12 3:08am

I'm Just Using above said method on my Projects, Works fine...
You Just Show the form whenever necessary and Applicable...

Krunal Rohit · Answer 3 · 2012-12-15T20:37:00

Solution 2

TextBox1.PasswordChar = "*";

like this ???

Posted 15-Dec-12 20:37pm

Krunal Rohit