hello, am trying to make a password screen for my database

i got the ID and password text boxs when u type in password box it comes up with ****** which i want but ...........i have a button that does nothing and i want it to compair the data to whats in my database and if the same go to my main menu

The MS Knowledge Base has an article on this subject but I can't get the site to pop up the correct one at the moment. Search the site for article # Q179371.

wheres that

Finally got it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q179371