Welcome to the Visual Studio Spell Checker project.
This project is a Visual Studio editor extension that checks the spelling of comments, strings, and plain text as you type or interactively with a tool window. It is based largely on the spell checker extension originally created by Noah Richards, Roman Golovin, and Michael Lehenbauer. This version has been extended as follows:
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It uses NHunSpell to perform the spell checking. As such, custom dictionaries can be added to spell check in different languages (OpenOffice versions 2, 3, and 4 dictionaries are supported).
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Added the ability to spell check the inner text of XML elements as well as certain attribute values.
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Added support for replacing all occurrences of a misspelling via the smart tag context menu (hold down the Ctrl key when selecting a replacement word).
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Added an Ignore Once option to the smart tag context menu to ignore a specific instance of a misspelled word.
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Fixed up various issues to skip text that should not be spell checked and to break up text into words correctly when escape sequences are present in the text.
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Added an interactive spell checking tool window to find and fix spelling errors in the current file.
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Some new spell checking options have been added and all of the spell checking options have been exposed and can be configured. Configurable options include:
- The default language to use for spell checking.
- Enable or disable spell checking as you type.
- Ignore words with digits.
- Ignore words in all uppercase.
- Ignore .NET and C-style format string specifiers.
- Ignore words that look like filenames and e-mail addresses.
- Ignore words that look like XML elements in spell checked text.
- Treat underscores as separators.
- Various options for excluding specific elements of C# source code files from being spell checked.
- Exclude files from spell checking by filename extension.
- Specify a list of XML elements in which the content should be ignored when spell checking XML files.
- Specify a list of XML attributes for which the value should be spell checked when spell checking XML files.
- Specify additional folders to search for dictionaries.
- Determine localized resource file language from the filename
- Configurations can be specified at any level (solution, project, folder, or file). Options can be inherited or overridden.
See the Project Wiki for information on requirements for building the code, contributing to the project, and using and configuring the spell checker extension in Visual Studio.