Configure Visual Studio to show error messages in English

Question

I\'m currently working in another country, and my PC has a non-English version of Windows installed. I don\'t care about this, but I do care a lot when Visual Studio shows e

Answer 1

The best way would be to use this code in your application entry method

if (Debugger.IsAttached)
    CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US");

It will force english messages not only in exceptions caught and displayed in the application but inside the IDE as well

Because you cannot force your users to use english language versions of Windows when performing some initial tests on premises you may have find this useful.