A simple developer's journey

Visual Studio is now available to download. In my case, I used the english web installer to install the english version. But I was a little bit surprised (or not) to see that the installed version was setup with the same language as my operating system. So here is the simple steps to change the IDE's language: 1- Run Visual Studio 2017 installer (in administrator mode) then click"update" button of the instance you want to update: 2- Then click on the language modules tab 3- Then check all languages you want to use in your IDE 4- Restart Visual Studio then go to Menu / TOOLS / Options / (Environnement - International Settings) menu 5- Finally choose your prefered language in the languages combobox. Note that you can choose 'Same as Microsoft Windows' option. Restart and enjoy programming !

As a good .NET developer, yesterday I installed the new Visual Studio 2015 IDE to discover all its new features... VS2015 installed ! I was previously developping mobile apps with Xamarin on VS2013. So as I am impatient I installed VS2015 without thinking of all the modifications it can bring to my environment... And bingo ! When I started back VS2013 to edit my Xamarin's projects, I had a bad surprise: iOS & Android projects no more compatible... But, fortunately, I find a really quick solution to restore Xamarin compatibility with VS2013. In fact in the windows programs / functionnalities menu, I  changed the Xamarin app components configuration like above: Xamarin, change installation Xamarin for Visual Studio 2013 is disabled ! Re-enable it and it s all good :) And go you can continue to develop Xamarin projects with VS2013 !