Recently, I wrote a couple of blog post (here and here) about how to enable multi-lingual development scenarios by taking advantage of the Visual Studio IDE UI language switching feature. I would like to add to those previous posts by showing an example of using this feature, including some screenshots.
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For this example, I will use the English and French versions of the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. However, it works equally well for any version and UI language of Visual Studio.
I configured my system as follows:
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Now that I have both the French and English versions of VC# Express installed, I can easily switch IDE UI languages. When I launch the IDE with English UI, it appears as follows:
Once I launch the IDE with English UI, I can do the following to change the UI language to French:
The English Options dialog looks like the following:
After following the above steps and then reopening the IDE, VC# will appear as follows:
I am able to change the language back to English by using the same set of steps as listed above, except I need to refer to the French translation for each of the IDE UI elements. The French Options dialog looks like the following:
In addition to using the steps listed above, I can change the IDE UI language by using the following command lines:
It is important to note that when using the /LCID command line switch, the default UI language will be updated in the registry when Visual Studio launches. That means that if you had previously configured VS to launch in English and you then pass in /LCID 1036, you will set the default language to French. That means that when you close the IDE and reopen it using the Start menu shortcut it will continue to appear with French UI until you change it in the International Settings section of the Options dialog or launch the IDE with /LCID 1033.
One other interesting note that I want to emphasize here - IDE language switching will be available even if you don't install the exact same edition of Visual Studio for each language. For example, you can install the English Visual Studio Team Suite and the French Visual Studio Professional. However, the only UI that will correctly switch languages will be components that are common to the two editions that you install on your system. So you might see a mix of two different UI languages depending on what editions you have installed on your system and what features you use within the IDE. In addition, there are limitations in the UI language fallback mechanism for some IDE features, so you may see some features missing from the IDE even though the feature is installed for one of the two UI languages.
<update date='2/10/2011'> Fixed broken links to images used in this post. </update>
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What's the shortcut for TILDE using a mac keyboard running on windows 7?
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Try holding alt and typing 0126 on the numeric keypad
This is for the bare ~ . If you need Ñ use 0209 and if you need ñ type 0241. You can discover more using charmap.exe
Apparently this requires a registry setting. Mine was enabled by default on XP, so check this if it doesn't work:
Alas, this appears to require a registry setting. It was already set on my computer, but some readers report that this method didn't work for them, and this is probably why. If you don't know what the registry is, please don't try this. Under HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method, set EnableHexNumpad to '1'. If you have to add it, set the type to be REG_SZ.
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Turn on the language bar (right-click on the clock, and select toolbars->language bar)Then select English (United states) instead of english (united kingdom). That will give you a tilde...
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Try Alt+n (hold down the right 'Alt/Option' key and hit n).
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