A Spooky PowerShell Halloween

I shared some code yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, but you may have missed it and I wanted to have a more permanent record so this is it. In the spirit of the holiday, I thought it would spooky to have a little fun with the PowerShell ISE.

A spooky Halloween theme for the ISE (Image Credit: Jeff Hicks)

How did I get this? Well first, I recommend you save your existing settings. Run this command in the PowerShell ISE.

$psise.options | Select ConsolePane*,Font* | Export-CSV $home\Documents\SavedISEColors.csv

This will save current values for settings you are about to change to a CSV file. Then run these commands to change ISE options.

$psise.options.ConsolePaneBackgroundColor = "Black"
$psise.options.ConsolePaneTextBackgroundColor = "Black"
$psise.options.ConsolePaneForegroundColor = "DarkOrange"
$psise.options.FontName = "Chiller"
$psise.Options.FontSize = 14

Scary easy, right? These settings will remain even if you restart the PowerShell ISE. To restore your original settings and sanity you can import the saved CSV:

(import-csv $home\Documents\SavedISEColors.csv ).psobject.properties | foreach { $psise.options.$($_.name) = $_.Value}

Or go to Tools – Options – Manage Themes and select the default, or whatever you are using.

Restoring the ISE theme (Image Credit: Jeff Hicks)

Happy Trick or Treating!

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