Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog

A few users discovered that design view in VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 may get broken when Office 2000 is installed. See, for example, http://forums.asp.net/p/1194475/2061103.aspx#2061103 and http://forums.asp.net/t/1191630.aspx . Actually...

This article is obsoltete. Please look here for newer version http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/29/spell-checker-update-2-2-full-support-for-vs-2008-sp1-simpler-setup-and-a-few-bug-fixes.aspx Bug fixes: <param>Text</param>...

Following Visual Studio 2008 release I updated my Spell Shecker add-in so it works with VS 2008 as well as added some new functionality. So here is version 2.0, updated for VS 2005 and now available for VS 2008. Usual disclaimer This software is provided...

If after setup Spell Checker does not appear in the Tools menu, try the following Try installing add-in as administrator. Setup needs to register COM components so it needs access to Local Machine registry key. You may want to save MSI file to disk...

A few users asker how to select language for spell checking in the code comments. Egil Hansen (see comments to http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/13/spell-checker-for-html-asp-net-jscript-vb-c-css-and-c-for-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx#comments...