Question

I am looking for a method so that when a user types in a password textbox, the character they typed is displayed and shown for 1 sec. Then it gets masked with the system password character or any defined password character?

I can create an option in the app so that a user can change the textbox, so that it no longer uses a password char but then the entire password is shown 🙁

I tried using different things using a keypress down event, but couldn’t figure out how to do it.

Does anyone have any idea if this can be down at all in C#?

Answer 1

It can most definitely be done in C#.

For Windows Forms:

You may want to wrap this in your own user control to keep organized.

An easy way of doing this is, OnKeyDown, capturing the character and adding it to your own private string realPassword, and appending the character to the textbox for 1 second, erasing it, and appending a ●. Then simply read your string for the password.