C# Console - hide the input from console window while typing

Question

I'm using Console.ReadLineto read the input of the user. However, I want to hide/exclude the inputted text on the console screen while typing. For example, when the user writes "a", it writes "a" to the console and then I will have a variable with the value "a". However, I don't want "a" to be written on the console's output.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Here is a short implementation. thx @ojblass for the idea

System.Console.Write("password: ");
string password = null;
while (true)
{
    var key = System.Console.ReadKey(true);
    if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.Enter)
        break;
    password += key.KeyChar;
}