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Membership.MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.Security
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets the minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.

public:
 static property int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { int get(); };
public static int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { get; }
static member MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters : int
Public Shared ReadOnly Property MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters As Integer

Property Value

Int32

The minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.

Examples

The following code example shows the membership configuration element in the system.web section of the application's Web.config file. It specifies that the application use an instance of the SqlMembershipProvider class to provide membership services, and sets the minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters attribute to 1 character.

<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider"  
  userIsOnlineTimeWindow = "20>  
  <providers>  
    <add  
      name="SqlProvider"  
      type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"  
      connectionStringName="SqlServices"  
      requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"  
      minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters="1"  
      />  
  </providers>  
</membership>

Remarks

The MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters property returns the minimum number of special, non-alphanumeric characters that must be entered to create a valid password for the membership provider specified in the Provider property.

The MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters property value is set in the application configuration using the minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters attribute of the membership configuration element.

A non-alphanumeric character is a character for which the IsLetterOrDigit method returns false.

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