How can I make a TextBox be a "password box" and display stars when using MVVM?

Question

How can I do this in XAML:

PSEUDO-CODE:

<TextBox Text="{Binding Password}" Type="Password"/> 

so that the user sees stars or dots when he is typing in the password.

I've tried various examples which suggest PasswordChar and PasswordBox but can't get these to work.

e.g. I can do this as shown here:

<PasswordBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"     PasswordChar="*"/> 

but I of course want to bind the Text property to my ViewModel so I can send the value the bound TextBox when the button is clicked (not working with code behind), I want to do this:

<TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0"      Text="{Binding Login}"      Style="{StaticResource FormTextBox}"/> <PasswordBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"     Text="{Binding Password}"      PasswordChar="*"     Style="{StaticResource FormTextBox}"/> 

But PasswordBox doesn't have a Text property.

Answer 1

To get or set the Password in a PasswordBox, use the Password property. Such as

string password = PasswordBox.Password; 

This doesn't support Databinding as far as I know, so you'd have to set the value in the codebehind, and update it accordingly.