What's the difference between Add-PsSnapIn and Import-Module

Question

Powershell has two means for importing additional cmdlets into a session, Add-PsSnapIn and Import-Module. The docs are not at all clear regarding when one would chose one ov

Answer 1

This is poorly documented, so take my answer with a grain of salt. Take a look at developer documents for snapin and modules. Briefly, snapin is "just" a .Net assebly whilst module can contain scripts, asseblies and more.