Binding PasswordBox control to create user.

[Alan]

Hi,

I'm trying to use this control for user management, I am aware that you're not supposed to bind to PasswordBox field, and I do not intend to, but I would like to have the field there when you're going to insert a new user or edit a current user (in the case of edit it would be an empty text field).

How would you go about achieving this?

Thanks,
Daryl

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hello Daryl,

 
In this case you have to manually define the fields in RadDataForm and set the PasswordBox as its content as shown below:

<telerik:DataFormDataField  Label="PersonalInfo:">
                     <PasswordBox Password="{Binding PersonalInfo,Mode=TwoWay}" PasswordChar="*"/>
</telerik:DataFormDataField>

Also you may check our online demos and documentation for more information.

Kind regards,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team

[Alan]

Hi Vanya,

The problem is that Password doesn't have a DependencyProperty. So when you try to bind the password, you'll get this error:

A 'Binding' cannot be set on the 'Password' property of type 'PasswordBox'. A 'Binding' can only be set on a DependencyProperty of a DependencyObject.

Hence my original question.

Thank you for your help,
Daryl

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hello Daryl,

 
I have spent some time to investigate this case. The main reason that the PasswordBox control for both WPF/Silverlight does not expose  a DependencyProperty for the Password property is due to security reasons and generally should be avoided. I have found two interesing threads which might be useful for you to fetch this limitation:
                                                                "PasswordBox and Binding"
                                                          "PasswordBox and Binding MVVM"  


In case you need any further assistance, please let me know.

Kind regards,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team