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Document Protection Dialogs

The Start Enforcing Protection and Unprotect Document dialogs allow end-users to protect a document by specifying a password and removing protection from a document if the password is known.

DXRichEdit_StartEnforcingProtectionDialog

DXRichEdit_UnprotectDocumentDialog

End-users can invoke these dialogs by clicking Protect Document or Unprotect Document on the Review ribbon tab. Refer to the Lesson 1 - Create a Simple Rich Text Editor topic for details on how to provide the ribbon UI for the RichEditControl. Invoking the ProtectDocumentCommand and UnprotectDocumentCommand commands invokes the dialogs as well.

DXRichEdit_Dialogs_ProtectUprotectDocuments_Invoke

To enforce document protection by setting the specified password in code or remove document protection without prompting or password entry, you can use the Document.Protect and Document.Unprotect methods.