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

Nov 6 '08 #1

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("")]

Nov 6 '08 #2

Frinavale

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

Nov 6 '08 #3

Plater

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

Nov 6 '08 #4

Frinavale

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

Nov 6 '08 #5

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

Nov 6 '08 #6

Frinavale

Its at the bottom of the Options window.

Nov 7 '08 #7

Plater

All I got is ok/cancel buttons?

Nov 7 '08 #8

Frinavale

What version of VS are you using?

Nov 7 '08 #9

Plater

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

Nov 7 '08 #10

joedeene

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

joedeene

Nov 7 '08 #11

Frinavale

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.

Nov 7 '08 #12

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

Nov 7 '08 #13

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...hopefully 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

Nov 5 '09 #14

Plater

I had no recollection of this conversation.

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

Nov 5 '09 #15

Frinavale

Yeah, what's really weird about this is now that I have removed the French keyboard I get to use CTRL+Z again.

..................

Nov 5 '09 #16