Hi,  

  When I start Visual Studio 2008 I always take a look at the "Start Page new channel" to see what's going on in the community.

  When my VS 2008 language interface was first in french, I could understand that the news channel was redirected to Microsoft France as many events was targetting this country.

  When I next changed my VS 2008 language interface to English, I noticed that the news channel was now targetting Microsoft US.  Here is the weblink I have in "Tools/Options/Environment/Startup/Start Page news channel":

                                                   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=45332&clcid=409

  My question.  Is it possible to configure the news channel so it targets something more related to Canada, Québec?  I would certainly appreciate to be aware of and don't miss any special events especially targetting my country. 

Thanks for helping,

Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your post.

The answer is Yes.

The information provided on the Visual Studio start page comes from the MSDN Visual Studio 2008 RSS feed.

As we know, we can change the News Channel via Tools >> Options >> Environment >> Startup >> Start Page news channel.
I've tried configuring the News Channel with the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/France/Vision/RssNew.aspx?Did=B2873510-DC97-4F45-B64D-A3DD3C0DB48f&Pid=&Tid=&Cid=7E0F2D8F-9F1C-4484-A311-96F85B7b3447
(It's for Canada - Français.)
It works on my machine.

For Visual C++ Developer Center (Canada), you can refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-ca/visualc/default.aspx

We can get the RSS URL when we click the this icon:

I'm not quite familiar with Québec. You might try adding this language to MSDN from the following website:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms376822.aspx

Hope this helps. If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your reply.

I can understand your concern on French contents of MSDN.
As I mentioned above, the information provided on the Visual Studio start page comes from the MSDN Visual Studio 2008 RSS feed. I feel sorry for that French contents are not upgraded in time as English contents. I have to admit that the behavior is less desirable as you expected. To feedback this issue in a formal way, could you please go to our Connect portal site and submit it?

    https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/

Every feedback submitted will be evaluated carefully by our engineers. They will let you know their comments further through that portal. It would be great if you can also paste the link to the submitted feedback here, so that other community members can see it as well.

For your second question, to apply different settings for different environment, we can do some trick to achieve that. :)
I would suggest you to export the settings for both C++ and C# via the following steps:

1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
2. Click the "Export selected environment settings" option.
3. Expand the "General Settings node in the tree view.
4. Check the setting that you want to export like keyboard settings.
5. Click Next and save the settings file (as .vssettings), then click Finish.

When you want to apply C++ or C# layout, you can import the related setting as the following steps:

1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
2. Click the "Import selected environment settings" option.
3. Click the "No, just import new settings..." option.
4. Click the Browse button and navigate to where you saved the .vssettings file.
5. Click Open to open the file and then click Finish to load it.

Hope this helps! :)

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your suggestions. It will help Microsoft to improve performance and service. :)

Do you mean that you want to change the default development environment from C++ to C#?

If yes, please try the following steps:

Click on Tools >> Import and Export Settings... >> Choose Reset All Settings >> Choose C# Development Settings >> Finish

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi Stéphane,

As far as I know, when we reset the environment from one development platform to another, all the setting will be back to the default. For your concern, you might resort to some add-in to do the job. Visual Studio Extensibility  should be the place to consult for better answer.

Have a good night! :)

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi again,

  I took a look at the weblink suggested.  I will post my question there and we'll see next.  My special thanks for all help provided.  We can close the case now.

Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your post.

The answer is Yes.

The information provided on the Visual Studio start page comes from the MSDN Visual Studio 2008 RSS feed.

As we know, we can change the News Channel via Tools >> Options >> Environment >> Startup >> Start Page news channel.
I've tried configuring the News Channel with the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/France/Vision/RssNew.aspx?Did=B2873510-DC97-4F45-B64D-A3DD3C0DB48f&Pid=&Tid=&Cid=7E0F2D8F-9F1C-4484-A311-96F85B7b3447
(It's for Canada - Français.)
It works on my machine.

For Visual C++ Developer Center (Canada), you can refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-ca/visualc/default.aspx

We can get the RSS URL when we click the this icon:

I'm not quite familiar with Québec. You might try adding this language to MSDN from the following website:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms376822.aspx

Hope this helps. If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi,

  Thanks for reply.  I took good note of links you supplied.  I already changed my VS2008 startup page.

  Can you tell me if the "french" content of MSDN rss is actually the same as the "english" content?  I'm asking you this question because, many times in the past, I could notice that the french contents of some MS websites were missing details compared to the english ones...  It was definitely giving me the impression that the french websites were showing old infos, that news were not updated since a while...

  Maybe one more related question?  

  I do remember when I first installed VS2008 that there was a question or setting related to the language used for programming when starting VS (C++, C# or else).  At that moment, C++ was my first choice. 

  As I will now be using VS2008 SP1 to develop both C++/CLI applications as well as C# applications, is there a way I can adapt VS2008 "environment" so that it is configured properly for the language I'm actually using?  The options I'm thinking of are:
                   - keyboard layout
                   - startup page (actually related to C++ stuff)
                   - in Tool/Options=>"Projects and solution", I only see setup related to VB and C++...  What about C#?
                   - maybe other options I might forget at this moment?

 Thanks again for helping,

Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your reply.

I can understand your concern on French contents of MSDN.
As I mentioned above, the information provided on the Visual Studio start page comes from the MSDN Visual Studio 2008 RSS feed. I feel sorry for that French contents are not upgraded in time as English contents. I have to admit that the behavior is less desirable as you expected. To feedback this issue in a formal way, could you please go to our Connect portal site and submit it?

    https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/

Every feedback submitted will be evaluated carefully by our engineers. They will let you know their comments further through that portal. It would be great if you can also paste the link to the submitted feedback here, so that other community members can see it as well.

For your second question, to apply different settings for different environment, we can do some trick to achieve that. :)
I would suggest you to export the settings for both C++ and C# via the following steps:

1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
2. Click the "Export selected environment settings" option.
3. Expand the "General Settings node in the tree view.
4. Check the setting that you want to export like keyboard settings.
5. Click Next and save the settings file (as .vssettings), then click Finish.

When you want to apply C++ or C# layout, you can import the related setting as the following steps:

1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
2. Click the "Import selected environment settings" option.
3. Click the "No, just import new settings..." option.
4. Click the Browse button and navigate to where you saved the .vssettings file.
5. Click Open to open the file and then click Finish to load it.

Hope this helps! :)

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi again,

   I may try to issue a report as suggested.   BTW, have a look by yourself.  You will see that the most recent newsline on fr-ca msdn news channel (http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/fr-ca/rss.xml) is dated August 7th compared to en-ca msdn news channel (http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-ca/rss.xml) which most recent newsline is dated September 4th...  Almost a month difference...  We're now October 12th...  I can't imagine that nothing happened since one month (two months in french)...  Anyway...

  For your little trick, considering the fact that my VS2008 interface is actually configured for a C++/CLI developer environment since install, is there a way I can manually set it up for a C# developer environment so I can then export the proper settings as suggested?

Thanks again for helping,

Stéphane   

Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your suggestions. It will help Microsoft to improve performance and service. :)

Do you mean that you want to change the default development environment from C++ to C#?

If yes, please try the following steps:

Click on Tools >> Import and Export Settings... >> Choose Reset All Settings >> Choose C# Development Settings >> Finish

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi again,

  I will try it out tomorrow as it is actually 4:00 a.m.   I will then come back with results but, at first sight, it should work without a problem.

  BTW, once my "configuration" files are properly exported, is there a way to launch VS2008 along with a definite "configuration file" instead of importing each time I want to change the "programming language" environment?

Thanks again,

Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,

As far as I know, when we reset the environment from one development platform to another, all the setting will be back to the default. For your concern, you might resort to some add-in to do the job. Visual Studio Extensibility  should be the place to consult for better answer.

Have a good night! :)

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi again,

  I took a look at the weblink suggested.  I will post my question there and we'll see next.  My special thanks for all help provided.  We can close the case now.

Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,

It's my pleasure. :)

Have a great day!

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your suggestions. It will help Microsoft to improve performance and service. :)

Do you mean that you want to change the default development environment from C++ to C#?

If yes, please try the following steps:

Click on Tools >> Import and Export Settings... >> Choose Reset All Settings >> Choose C# Development Settings >> Finish

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Thank You so much for this solution, I had the same exact "problem", and it worked just fine.

Again, thank you.