In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

Microsoft .NET lets you build complex applications quickly and easily, but its selection of controls does have notable gaps. Fortunately, you can address part of this deficiency yourself by building ...

When coding in a script, or even in a fully-featured software application, it's important to account for as many scenarios as possible. To limit the number of possible scenarios, it's a best practice ...

Input validation is the single best defense against injection and XSS vulnerabilities. Done right, proper input validation techniques can make web-applications invulnerable to such attacks. Done ...

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If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function. In recent ...