Creating a custom PowerShell Snap-In

As we've seen in the Creating a custom PowerShell command (CmdLet) recipe, the creation of PowerShell CmdLet is a process of defining the functionality you want to expose to the user, and sealing it as a .NET assembly. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you install your custom CmdLet which directly involves the creation of a PowerShell Snap-In.

We have already used the PowerShell Snap-In when we referenced a set of SharePoint Set earlier in this chapter. In this case, we called the following command:

				Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell"

In this example, we'll use similar approach to call our custom Snap-In.

Getting ready

As trivial as it sounds, to create a Snap-In, you will need to create another class in the Visual Studio solution you created earlier to define your CmdLet. Your Snap-In solution doesn't need to contain both a Snap-In and a CmdLet. In fact, you can have them created in two separate solutions as long as your...