In a previous tip we illustrated how in PowerShell 3.0, you can now use validators to restrict the data that can be assigned to a variable.
Here is another example. It assigns the data type "Int32" to a variable, so it only accepts numeric values. In addition, it adds a ValidateRange attribute, forcing the variable to numeric values in the range from 1 to 10:
[Int32][ValidateRange(1,10)]$id = 1
And this is how the variable responds to different assignments:
