So here is the situation, In my work pc I have a Win7 64bit Prof. ed. in German. With the blessings of MSDN subscription we could download and install English version of VS2010(ultimate) and TFS and so fort. Also I installed (separately) .NET v4.0 just to make sure I could work in English, so did my colleague. After I started working, I found out that all messages(build, exception, etc. whatever comes from the framework, not VS) are in German. I was getting nuts with this, where is German coming from, from OS?? nah it shouldn’t. Although I understand the language more or less, its a different story when it comes to understanding technical error message in German!!!. I was bothering my colleague (Maxim Zabolotskikh, speaks fluent german) every now and then, hey maxim what does this error mean!!!
So I decided to solve the problem. I googled a bit and found a lot of people having a Dutch OS and English VS2010. And they were getting some expensive solutions, like upgrading the OS to Ultimate and install MUI pack for the language. After some luck I found something I like, although no one marked this as answer(stakeoverflow). A person suggested that go to control panel -> controls and features and you will find something called “Microsoft .NET framework 4 (XXX) Client Profile”, where XXX in my case was DEU. Uninstall this and if there is something else that you find with XXX language in framework version you are using, also get rid of them. And it worked!!!!! I got back english reply from .NET 🙂
The solution is quick and easy!! If you are not an administrator of your PC it be a bit tricky but still a free and simple solution.
Why did I make the blog sound like a story? So it’s not boring and you understand exactly what environment I had and the problem. Therefor its easier to see if the solution fits your problem context!!! Hope it helps.
Greeting from
Murshed
Salzburg, Austria
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