This property gets a value indicating the format for storing passwords in the membership data source.

Declaration

// C#
public override MembershipPasswordFormat PasswordFormat{get;}

Property Value

The format for storing passwords in the data source. The format can be any one of the MembershipPasswordFormat values, such as Clear, Hashed, or Encrypted. The default value is Hashed.

Remarks

To customize a membership provider, ASP.NET developers can specify a MembershipPasswordFormat enumerated value for this property through the web.config file using the passwordFormat attribute. The attribute name in the configuration file is case-sensitive.

The PasswordFormat property indicates that passwords are stored in any one of the following formats: Clear, Encrypted, or Hashed. The format name is case-sensitive. For example, Clear is valid, but clear is invalid.