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Resetting your Default Language Settings in VS 2005

After you have installed Visual Studio 2005 you are prompted to ‘choose’ the default collection of settings for your environment. Depending one what choice you chose will dictate your keyboard mappings, your menu options, etc.

What do you do if you don’t like your selection after the initial install or if you want to change them? You can change them, but it is not intuitive.

Here are the steps to change your settings:

Choose Tools -> Import and Export Settings...
Select Reset All Settings and click Next
Select whether you would like to save the current settings (I would say not here) and click Next
Select the settings you want to use and click Finish

There you have it, the steps to reset/change your default language settings…

Published Jun 18 2007, 06:09 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net IDE

Comments

Kareena said:

Thanks for that! I've just started a new role and inherited a desktop with a very unfamiliar setup in Visual Studio but I had no idea how I could change it. I feel much better now.

# June 19, 2007 7:15 AM

Derik Whittaker said:

@Kareena,

I was in the same situation yesterday, which is why i created the post. I have no idea what setup the person prior to me had, but it was NOT the one i like or use.

Glad i could help

# June 19, 2007 7:29 AM

Asad said:

Good it helps

# April 23, 2008 2:19 AM

Dharmendra Bhargava said:

Thanks to you.....it was really very helpful.

It works reallly fast.

# July 4, 2008 10:03 AM

Saim said:

I have installed visual studio 2005 in Italian. I want every thing to change in English. Unfortunately, I dont know Italian. Can any one help me in changing my language settings.?

Regards

# July 29, 2008 9:47 AM

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About Derik Whittaker

Derik is a .Net Developer/Architect specializing in WinForms working out the northern suburbs of Chicago. He is also believer and advocate for Agile development including SCRUM, TDD, CI, etc.

When Derik is not writing code he can be found spending time with his wife and young son, climbing on his bouldering wall, watching sports (mostly baseball), and generally vegging out.