Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Receiving Password Text Using a PasswordBox

PasswordBox works in much the same way as the TextBox, allowing the user to type or edit its contents. Each character entered into a PasswordBox, however, appears briefly, for two seconds or until another character is entered, whichever is shorter, and is then changed to an obscurity character. The obscurity character is a bullet character by default.

The obscurity character can be customized using the PasswordChar property. For example, to use a question mark instead of the default obscurity character, the following can be used:

<PasswordBox PasswordChar="?" />

The PasswordBox does not contain a Text property, but rather a Password property, which is used to retrieve (or set) the password string. ...