I’m actually a bit surprised that despite .Net\/C# being more than 10 years old there is still no native Console.ReadLine() overload that hides the characters you are tying – for when you want to prompt for a password or so. Of course writing your own version to do this is not really difficult but still it would have been nice…<\/p>\n
Here is one quick version… in case someone else wants to have one (and is too lazy to create it from scratch) hehe.<\/p>\n
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\r\n private static string GetPwd()\r\n {\r\n string pass = "";\r\n Console.Write("Enter your password: ");\r\n ConsoleKeyInfo key;\r\n\r\n do\r\n {\r\n key = Console.ReadKey(true);\r\n\r\n \/\/ Backspace Should Not Work\r\n if (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Backspace && key.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter)\r\n {\r\n pass += key.KeyChar;\r\n Console.Write("*");\r\n }\r\n else if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.Backspace) \r\n {\r\n if (pass.Length > 0)\r\n pass = pass.Substring(0, pass.Length - 1);\r\n Console.Write("\\b \\b");\r\n }\r\n } \r\n \/\/ Stops Receving Keys Once Enter is Pressed\r\n while (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter); \r\n Console.WriteLine();\r\n return pass.TrimEnd('\\r', '\\n'); \r\n }\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m actually a bit surprised that despite .Net\/C# being more than 10 years old there is still no native Console.ReadLine() overload that hides the characters you are tying – for when you want to prompt for a password or so. …<\/p>\n