Installed Languages in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing about the Installed languages in SharePoint 2010.

Installed Languages:

An installed language is either the SKU language or a language that administrator adds to servers in the farm by downloading and installing a language pack.

Download and install the language packs in the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=046f16a9-4bce-4149-8679-223755560d54&displaylang=en

We can get all the installed languages using SharePoint object model.

Steps Involved:

• Open Visual Studio 2010.
• Go to File => New => Project.
• Select Console Application template from the installed templates.
• Enter the Name and click Ok.
• Add the following assembly.
  
  
  • Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
   
• Add the following namespace.
  
  
  • Using Microsoft.SharePoint ;
   
• Program.cs looks like the following.
  
  
   
• Build the solution.
• Hit F5.
• Output:
  
  
  

PowerShell script:

• Go to Start => All Programs => Microsoft SharePoint 2010 products => SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
• Run as an administrator.
• Run the following script to get the installed languages.