Comments on: Silverlight – Password field no longer missing

By: bad monkey

bad monkey — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:55:12 +0000

nice job, and good adds Gongdo!

By: Tom Vedykneep

Tom Vedykneep — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:56:12 +0000

First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can learn more.

By: Gongdo

Gongdo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:12:31 +0000

Wow! Awesomely simple!
However There are some problems.
- You can copy&paste it! :D
- Not works in non-English languages such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese…
(TextBox will show there characters.)

Although this simple solution has 2 problems, you can find way like :
- You can prevent copy&paste to use follow code in TextBox’s KeyDown event handler.
if ((Keyboard.Modifiers & ModifierKeys.Control) == ModifierKeys.Control)
(sender as TextBox).Select(0, 0);)
- You can make password.ttf to support your language’s characters.
(but it may not regconize upper/lower case.)

By: Stasys

Stasys — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:54:31 +0000

There is some problem with other charset like cyrilic, baltic etc.

By: Palard Julien

Palard Julien — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:30:32 +0000

To : Adrien Siffermann
Hi,

I agree, but, if you are writting your password it means you know it. Then I guess you won’t steal your own password by copying/pasting it.
In my opinion masking with stars is only a security for curious guys who might see your screen…

By: Adrien Siffermann

Adrien Siffermann — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:18:17 +0000

Hi,

You solution seems to be cool, but only seems… :)
In fact, because you are using a custom font, the content of the textbox isn’t masked and you can get its content with a simple copy/paste, which isn’t very secure.
By the way, I think that writing a new TextBox with different input mode is really much sexy and secure.

By: Palard Julien

Palard Julien — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:44:18 +0000

Prasad : Thanks :) It’s a font I made, so you can reuse it whithout any restrictions, it’s free :)

By: Prasad

Prasad — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:50:19 +0000

Hi,

looking cool solution man………….
but need to ask one thing can i use this font in my application without any issue….
Is that font file is open to used by anybody?
or any issue about copyright there………

Thanx in advance….

By: Justin-Josef Angel [MSFT]

Justin-Josef Angel [MSFT] — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:16:47 +0000

Awesome idea! very creative thinking.

keep up the great job.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:57:13 +0000

Wow, awesome idea! Thanks for sharing!