How do I change my development environment to a different language in Visual Studio?

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dban10 picture dban10 · Jun 9, 2009 · Viewed 52.1k times · Source

When I first installed Visual Studio, I chose to customize my environment for "Visual C++" development. Now, I am working primarily in C# and want to change this setting to a C# environment.

How can I change the environment settings from one language to another in Visual Studio?

Answer

Inisheer picture Inisheer · Jun 9, 2009

Tools → Import and Export Settings → Import Selected Environment Settings...

A dialog will appear, prompting you whether or not you want to save your current settings. If you've made extensive customizations and might want to go back to them at a later date, you should choose to save them.

Then click "Next". You'll be prompted to import a set of environment settings. At the top will be the default environment settings options, customized for each language. In your case, you'd choose C#.

If you wanted to re-import your saved settings, you'd do it the same way—just browse to the saved settings file in the final step of the wizard.

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