Visual Studio: keybaord settings

[Frinavale]

I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and my keyboard settings for one of my solutions is set up so that its French.

This is particularly annoying when I'm trying comment and I get a "è" instead of a ' or when I'm trying to use the < key and get a , instead.

I have no idea how this setting was changed and don't know how to change it back.

The weird thing is it's only happening in 1 project and none of the others seem to be affected by this strangeness.

I've checked my Windows Language settings and everything's set to English-US.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


Thanks

- *frustrated* Frinny

[Plater]

One project or one solution?
I thought maybe inside the project or solution files there would be a language setting, but I did not see any in mine.

In your assemblyinfo.cs file, is this attribute set to something?
[assembly: AssemblyCulture ("")]

[Frinavale]

One project or one solution?
I thought maybe inside the project or solution files there would be a language setting, but I did not see any in mine.

In your assemblyinfo.cs file, is this attribute set to something?
[assembly: AssemblyCulture ("")]

I tried that...didn't change anything.

[Plater]

Do you have the language bar enabled on the desktop or anything funky like that?

[Frinavale]

Do you have the language bar enabled on the desktop or anything funky like that?

I found it!
Finally!

To fix the problem I did the following:

• Tools menu -> Options
• Check "Show all Settings"
• Environment -> International Settings
• Click on the drop down box (there was only one language listed here for me: "English")
• Restart Visual Studio

I still don't know what happened to change this but I'm glad I'm able to add comments again :)

-Frinny

[Plater]

Hmm, I don't have a "show all settings", they were all already there.
Good to know where that is the next time I want to prank another developer :-D

[Frinavale]

Hmm, I don't have a "show all settings", they were all already there.
Good to know where that is the next time I want to prank another developer :-D

Its at the bottom of the Options window.

[Plater]

All I got is ok/cancel buttons?

[Frinavale]

All I got is ok/cancel buttons?

What version of VS are you using?

[Plater]

I checked both VS 2008 and VS 2005, their options dialogs looked the same

[joedeene]

I have a "Show All Settings" Check Box in Visual C# Express 2008.

joedeene

[Frinavale]

I checked both VS 2008 and VS 2005, their options dialogs looked the same

Hmm I see the Ok and Cancel buttons on the right side of the Options dialog, and on the left side I see a check box labled "Show All Settings".

Strange.

[Plater]

Do you have the standard or professional addition? I use the professional one, and when you first run and it asked "how do you want the environment to look" i chose no specific profile

[Frinavale]

I just figured out why my keyboard kept getting switched to French.

I am Canadian and in Canada we have 2 official languages (French and English).

My Windows regional settings are configured for Canada. This means that Windows makes 2 keyboards available by default: an English (US) Keyboard, and a French Keyboard.

For Windows, by default, the "switch keyboards" shortcut key stroke is: Shift + Alt.

Guess what the shortcut key for undo is in Visual Studio 2008?

Shift + Alt + backspace

What the #@%$ where they thinking when the changed the undo shortcut keystroke from CTRL + Z to Shift + Alt+Backspace.

Gurr!

I removed the French keyboard from my keyboards...hop efully I Never see this error ever again.

I could have changed the keystroke sequence for switching keyboards to something else but I wanted to make sure I never have a French keyboard to accidentally switch to on any dev machine.

*Annoyed*

-Frinny

[Plater]

I had no recollection of this conversation.

I am a fan of sticking to ctrl+z and ctrl+y for undo/redo myself.