Which passwordchar shows a black dot (•) in a winforms textbox?

Question

Short question here:

In .Net 4.0 Winforms, how do I use the PasswordChar property of a Textbox to show a common bl

Answer 1

I was also wondering how to store it cleanly in a variable. As using

char c = '•';

is not very good practice (I guess). I found out the following way of storing it in a variable

char c = (char)0x2022;// or 0x25cf depending on the one you choose

or even cleaner

char c = '\u2022';// or "\u25cf"

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664669%28v=vs.71%29.aspx

same for strings

string s = "\u2022";

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/362314fe.aspx