password text box

[Dan]

When I try to read the text in a password text box, I get an empty
string........

code behind...

MyPassword = PasswordTextBox.Text always returns an empty string.....

What am I missing? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I added a normal textbox (TextBox1) to a form & changed the password
character to an asterix.

I then used:

MessageBox.Show(TextBox1.Text)

This returned 'TextBox1' which is the default text, which I left as default

Although, if you want to uncover the password under the asterix's then
that's very easy too

I hope this has helped

 

[Chris Calzaretta]

That is crazy... I will be testing this.
in asp.net the line of code you have works fine

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

When I try to read the text in a password text box, I get an empty
string........

code behind...

MyPassword = PasswordTextBox.Text always returns an empty string.....

Web application or Windows Forms application?

 

[Dan]

Web application.....What I want to do is read the password at the
server.......
Thanks, Dan

 

[Dan]

I do want to uncover the actual password under the asterix at the server.

Did you also change the textbox TextMode to Password?

Thanks....Dan

 

[Dan]

Don't know where you put the Mesageboxshow code. When I place it in the code
behind in the Click event for the submit button, I get a "Messageboxshow is
not declared" error.