Visual Studio, Set Language, Change Language

Set (Change) Visual Studio Installer Language

Even if you have set the language for Visual Studio (we are talking about the real Visual Studio not Visual Studio Code[!]) to English US (en-US) on (e.g.) a Windows where date, time settings are set to (e.g.) German, it may be, that the installer is talking in German. Please note: It's not a good idea, to use Visual Studio with German UI. If you are looking for errors, you won't find most of the solutions with e.g. Google search, as most developer (even foreign speakers) are using Visual Studio with English US (en-US) GUI.

If your Visual Studio Installer is using another language than en-US, you can Change it via PowerShell (most probably also a normal CMD shell window, but I haven't tried this). Find out where the VS Studio installer is installed (example is for Visual Studio 2022):

Right mouse click on:

Start-Menu->Visual Studio 2022->Visual Studio Installer

Then click on:

More >->Open file location

Now a Windows Explorer Window should open. Find the file "Visual Studio Installer" and right click it. In the context menu click on ”Properties“. In this dialog you can determine in the text entry field “Target” where setup.exe (this is the Visual Studio Installer executable) is installed. Open this directory in a PowerShell. Then in this PowerShell enter:

.\setup --locale en-US

The Visual Studio Installer should start with English US language. Exit the Installer and start it via the Start Menu: From now on, it should always start with English US language :-)