WPF Coded UI Testing: Encrypting password read from datasource

Question

I created a recorded action using the Coded UI Test Builder enters in user credentials into a login window. This initial recording hard coded an encrypted password into a public field of the Params object used by the test method, like this:

[GeneratedCode("Coded UITest Builder", "10.0.40219.1")]
    public class StartOccUIParams
    {

        #region Fields
        /// <summary>
        /// Type 'username' in 'usernameBox' text box
        /// </summary>
        public string UIUsernameBoxEditText = "username";

        /// <summary>
        /// Type '{Tab}' in 'usernameBox' text box
        /// </summary>
        public string UIUsernameBoxEditSendKeys = "{Tab}";

        /// <summary>
        /// Type '********' in 'passwordBox' text box
        /// </summary>
        public string UIPasswordBoxEditSendKeys = "9927b9lJLxdZrqR1G+zHC2MA==";
        #endregion
    }

This works well but I need to retrieve the username and password from a CSV data source to test failure conditions. Question is, how do I convert a password retrieved from the CSV into an encrypted form that can be used with the password box? I looked at SecureString but it does not expose an API to get the encrypted string, which I doubt will be in correct form.

   var loginParams = UIMap.StartOccUiParams;
            loginParams.UIUsernameBoxEditText = TestContext.DataRow["User"].ToString();           
            var password= TestContext.DataRow["Password"].ToString();  

           // how do I encrypt password to use below ?    
            loginParams.UIPasswordBoxEditSendKeys = "encrypted password";

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Kelly Elton Kelly Elton · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-07T19:24:22

Use Playback.EncryptText

Encrypts a given text for passing to playback as password property.

WPF Coded UI Testing: Encrypting password read from datasource

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