{"id":12493,"date":"2024-03-14T15:58:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-passwordchar-used-in-vb\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:14:54","slug":"how-is-the-passwordchar-used-in-vb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-passwordchar-used-in-vb\/","title":{"rendered":"VB PasswordChar Property Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In VB, PasswordChar is a control property used to specify the character displayed in a password box. Its main purpose is to hide the password characters entered by the user to enhance the security of the password.<\/p>\n<p>The PasswordChar property can be set to any character, commonly using &#8220;*&#8221; or &#8220;\u25cf&#8221; to represent the password character. 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