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Show-SnapinCmdlet

Shay Levy has a review of the latest/greatest IIS PowerShell provider CTP2 HERE. In that review, he shows how you can use Get-Command to show all the cmdlets in a snapin.  That works great but produces a linear list of cmdlets.  I think the following produces a easier way to digest the information: function Show-SnapinCmdlet ($...

Get-Help Can't Find My Help File!

(or How to Define the Help File Name in a Custom Windows PowerShell Snap-in)   We've discovered an error in our instructions for creating a custom Windows PowerShell snap-in. This error prevents Get-Help from finding the help files for cmdlets in the snap-in. We'd like to come clean about our mistake and to warn you about the effects of ...