Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

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re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Steven the .NET Junkie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:01:47 GMT

Thanks for the tool! I have a problem though. While I often use the Word (2003) spell check to check English, the VSSpellCheck tool doesn't recognize English words, only Dutch (Dutch is the OS and Word language).

How can I make sure VSSpellCheck also checks English text?

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

WebDevTools — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:34:09 GMT

Steven, spell checker uses default Word dictionary. Perhaps Word is set up for Dutch only. There should be a way to specify additional languages. In O2007 there is a separate app http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2007/12/18/how-to-select-language-for-spell-checking-in-code-comments.aspx. In O2003, I think the setting is somewhere in Tools | Spelling/Grammar...

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Aaron — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:55:12 GMT

Thanks for the tool, I've just installed it into my computer and it works well. I guess I'll need it very soon :)

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Stefan Olson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:54:23 GMT

Is there any way to plug the spell-checking into the design view? The design view should support on the fly spell-checking because it is available in expression web, which I understand uses the same technology.

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Eric — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:01:36 GMT

Thanks for the update! I uninstalled the previous and installed the new version, now I have two "Spell Check" menu items in my Tools menu. Of course when I clicked the Bad one it recognized that it's add-in was no longer there and offered to remove the menu item, but I just wanted to post and let you know that the uninstallation of the previous version did not remove the menu item from Tools.

Again, thanks!

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

WebDevTools — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:40:56 GMT

Old version used COM registration and unfortunately during uninstall sometime old registry keys didn't get removed.

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

WebDevTools — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:49:26 GMT

Stefan, designer is indeed the same as in xWeb, but Expression Web is an Office product so it is using Office spell checker engine directly, same way other Office apps do. Visual Studio is not Office product so there are licensing limitations. Office spell checker and dicitonaries are not always Microsoft products (you can see it in Office Help | About information). This add-in uses separately installed Word via public interfaces which is different from direct usage of Office engine.

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Stefan Olson — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:49:47 GMT

Fair enough. Is there a way that I can plug my own spellchecker into the WYSIWYG designer?

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Mostafa — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:45:16 GMT

Hi,

The spell checker is not working for me,i'm running vs 2008 SP1 with Vista SP1 on 64bit laptop.

any ideas why it didn't work with me ?

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

WebDevTools — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:49:34 GMT

Stefan: yes you can. Designer exposes DHTML model equivalent to IE4 (IHtmlDocument2) which you can obtain from VS extensibility interfaces:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa301592(VS.71).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa301471(VS.71).aspx

Basically you get current tab object and then QI (C++) or cast (VB/C#) it for IHtmlDocument2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574.aspx

You can then walk designer element tree, extract text from elements and attributes and use Word spell checker

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/04/17/577852.aspx

Where is Mikhail?

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:30:42 GMT

I have been posting in our team blog primarily. Maybe I should have cross posted, but I didn't. I will

Spell Checker for HTML and ASP.NET pages

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:53:46 GMT

This article is obsolete. 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

Spell checker update 2.1: a few bug fixes and couple of new features

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:54:27 GMT

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

Why there is no spell checking in Design view?

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Some folks asked why VS 2008 and VWD Express 2008 do not have "live" spell checking like Expression Web

VS SpellChecker

Paul Mooney — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:08:42 GMT

Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes Spell checker...

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

PWills — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:50:41 GMT

Any idea what's going wrong? After installation, I get the following error when loading Visual Studio:

OS: Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit (6.0.6001)

VS: Professional 2008 SP1 (9.0.30729.1)

.NET: 3.5 SP1

"The Add-in 'Spell Checker' failed to load or caused an exception. Would you like to remove this Add-in? If you choose yes, the file it was loaded from, '...', will be renamed.

Error Message: <Unknown Error>

Error number: 8013150a"

Visual Studio 中的拼写检查

Timwei Blog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:31:24 GMT

以前我们在Visual Studio如果要执行拼写检查都会把文本复制到Word里去做，费时费事。现在Visual Studi ...

Spell checker update 2.1: a few bug fixes and couple of new features

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:34:15 GMT

Note: this post is obsolete. Please use 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

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

David Hearn — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:14:13 GMT

To run the spell checker on all files in the solution, you must update the VB macro in the linked post to use 'DTE.ExecuteCommand("VSSpellCheckerAddIn.Connect.VSSpellCheckerAddIn")' instead of the old HTML command name.

Nuova versione del correttore ortografico per Visual Studio 2008

Around and About .NET World — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:21:35 GMT

Nuova versione del correttore ortografico per Visual Studio 2008

Around and About .NET World — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:09:58 GMT

Da qualche giorno è stata rilasciata la versione 2.2 dello Spell checker per Visual Studio 2008, destinata

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

mostafa arafa — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:39:03 GMT

The posted version is not working if you didn't install SP1 for VS 2008,once i installed SP1 for VS 2008 the spell checker v2.2 is working fine to me.

Thanks.

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

WebDevTools — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:31:32 GMT

Correct, this version requires SP1.

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

John Fly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:24:32 GMT

Given code to check the entire solution failed for me.. I ended up modifying to this :

Imports System

Imports EnvDTE

Imports EnvDTE80

Imports EnvDTE90

Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module SpellCheck2

Private _outputWindow As OutputWindowPane

Public Sub SpellCheckSolution()

_outputWindow = GetOutputWindowPane("Spell Checker")

_outputWindow.Clear()

_outputWindow.OutputString("Running spell check on files in the solution..." + vbCrLf)

For Each project As Project In DTE.ActiveSolutionProjects

ProcessProjectItemCollection(project.ProjectItems)

_outputWindow.OutputString("Spell check complete." + vbCrLf)

End Sub

Private Sub ProcessProjectItemCollection(ByVal projItemsCollection As ProjectItems)

Try

For Each pi As ProjectItem In projItemsCollection

If (pi.Name.EndsWith("aspx") Or pi.Name.EndsWith("ascx") Or pi.Name.EndsWith("html") Or pi.Name.EndsWith("htm")) Then

Dim window As Window = pi.Open(Constants.vsViewKindTextView)

window.Visible = True

window.Activate()

_outputWindow.OutputString("Checking : " + pi.Name + vbCrLf)

DTE.ExecuteCommand("VSSpellCheckerAddIn.Connect.VSSpellCheckerAddIn")

Else

If pi.Kind = Constants.vsProjectItemKindPhysicalFolder Then

_outputWindow.OutputString("Container : " + pi.Name + vbCrLf)

ProcessProjectItemCollection(pi.ProjectItems)

Else

_outputWindow.OutputString("Not Checking :" + pi.Name + vbCrLf)

End If '' end folder check

End If ''end file extension check

Next ''Get next project Item

Catch e As System.Exception

_outputWindow.OutputString(e.Message + vbCrLf)

End Try

End Sub

Private Function GetOutputWindowPane(ByVal Name As String) As OutputWindowPane

Dim window As Window

Dim outputWindow As OutputWindow

Dim outputWindowPane As OutputWindowPane

window = DTE.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindOutput)

window.Visible = True

outputWindow = window.Object

Try

outputWindowPane = outputWindow.OutputWindowPanes.Item(Name)

Catch e As System.Exception

outputWindowPane = outputWindow.OutputWindowPanes.Add(Name)

End Try

outputWindowPane.Activate()

Return outputWindowPane

End Function

End Module

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Dicky — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:07:53 GMT

Thanks for the spell checker tool. I have been looking for one for so long. I wish that the next VS would include this spell checker.

re: Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes

Wendell Kenney — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:23:05 GMT

I have installed version 2.2 as we are using VS 2008 SP1 and I get the spell checker in the menu and it acts like it is checking the first time I click on it but it never finds mispelled words. I am in source view.