PasswordBox with MVVM

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Rangel picture Rangel · Jul 8, 2009 · Viewed 17.8k times · Source

Hi people stackoverflow. I'm working with MVVM, I have ViewModel call UserViewModel with a Property Password. In the View have a control PasswordBox.

<PasswordBox x:Name="txtPassword" Password="{Binding Password}" />

But this xaml don't work. How do you do the binding?? Help please!!

Answer

Martin Harris picture Martin Harris · Jul 8, 2009

For security reasons the Password property is not a dependency property and therefore you can't bind to it. Unfortunately you'll need to perform the binding in the code behind the old fashioned way (register for OnPropertyChanged event and update the value through code...)

I quick search brings me to this blog post which shows how to write an attached property to sidestep the issue. Whether this is worth doing or not though really depends on your aversion to code-behind.

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