topic SDE connection file - get password in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/sde-connection-file-get-password/m-p/855837#M5536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The API for Tool "CreateDatabaseConnection_management" takes an aoptional argument called 'password' of data type 'Encrypted String'. What kind of encryption is that? is it same as byte[] returned by IPropertySet's getParmaeter("PASSWORD") call?</P><P></P><P>What I am trying to do is change Transaction Version of an existing SDE connection file using C#. One way I thought I could do is use IPropertySet interface to get all required parameters of an existing SDE connection file and then create new one with just different version argument.</P><P>But I am having problem with Password.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Mar 2018 22:53:31 GMT HimanshuSharma2 2018-03-05T22:53:31Z SDE connection file - get password https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/sde-connection-file-get-password/m-p/855837#M5536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The API for Tool "CreateDatabaseConnection_management" takes an aoptional argument called 'password' of data type 'Encrypted String'. What kind of encryption is that? is it same as byte[] returned by IPropertySet's getParmaeter("PASSWORD") call?</P><P></P><P>What I am trying to do is change Transaction Version of an existing SDE connection file using C#. One way I thought I could do is use IPropertySet interface to get all required parameters of an existing SDE connection file and then create new one with just different version argument.</P><P>But I am having problem with Password.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Mar 2018 22:53:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/sde-connection-file-get-password/m-p/855837#M5536 HimanshuSharma2 2018-03-05T22:53:31Z