Ctrl+Space changes keyboard instead of showing Intellisense's Auto-complete list on Visual Studio 2010

Question

I noticed that unexpectedly Visual Studio 2010 changed the keyboard layout.I tried some solutions like:

- Going to Windows\' Control Panel and removing other         


        

Answer 1

Reboot was required

This is one of the absolutely most annoying problems you can come across in Visual Studio 2010.

Every time I hit the key combination Ctrl+Space VS 2010 would change the keyboard layout. It changed from Norwegian to English. The change is only inside Visual Studio, the Language Bar still shows Norwegian. I had Norwegian and English keyboards installed. Norwegian first, that's what I use.

The only thing that was able to reset the keyboard was a restart of Visual Studio. But the next time I hit Ctrl+Space to get AutoCompletion the layout changed again. It only affects Visual Studio.

I tried the following:

1. Checked key-mappings for switching keyboard layout. I had cleared those long ago.

2. Deleted the English keyboard (only the Norwegian one left).

3. Tried changing the Language under Tools - Options - International Settings.

4. Deleted the .suo file.

5. Deleted the .sdf file (since the problem was related to IntelliSense)

6. I also tried every imaginable keyboard combination (many suggested in different forums), but none of them worked.

In between all of these I restarted Visual Studio, but to no avail.

The problem only went away when I restarted my computer. I suspect that deleting the English keyboard did the trick, but that a reboot is required.

I am on Windows 7. My solution contains C# class libraries as well as C++/CLI class libraries.