UC Unleashed

If you write a lot of PowerShell code, you probably have a favorite text editor. Maybe you use Notepad, Notepad+, PowerShell ISE, etc. Mine is IDM Computer Solutions’ UltraEdit. I’ve been using UltraEdit for many years, including while doing web dev work. It’s feature packed and well worth the few dollars that it costs.

One of UltraEdit’s great features is the ability to do syntax highlighting, with support for many different languages. By default, UltraEdit doesn’t ship with a wordfile for PowerShell. There is a community that helps develop new syntax highlighting wordfiles, and lo and behold, someone created a PowerShell wordfile.

I’ve taken that file and added the Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 cmdlets so that they are properly highlighted. The file can be downloaded from powershell.zip. Grab it and toss it into your %appdata%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\wordfiles folder. Enjoy!