18 January 09
One thing I haven't figured out yet, is how to assign a Visual Studio shortcut key to IntelliSpell...
Spell checkers for Visual Studio
One good spell checker and one really bad spell checker plug-in for Visual Studio.
A few month ago the Visual Web Developer Team Blog announced a new version of their free Spell checker plug-in for Visual Studio. But even for a free plug-in, this thing really sucks! It's incredibly slow and despite the web dev team’s response on my question about multi language support, the spell checker only checks the Dutch language on my pc, which is pretty annoying. And when I say slow, I mean S.L.O.W. It takes about four minutes to check a file with 1K LOC and Visual Studio stops responding till the plug-in has finished checking.There is an alternative.
In his January's Toolbox Column on MSDN Magazine, Scott Mitchell writes about the IntelliSpell plug-in from ComponentOne. While IntelliSpell is a commercial product, there is a free version available that works fine. While ms spell check needs Word installed on your PC, IntelliSpell is independent of Word and most of all: it’s fast! That 1K LOC file I was talking about? It is checked within a second. That makes IntelliSpell at least 250 times faster as the ms spell checker!One thing I haven't figured out yet, is how to assign a Visual Studio shortcut key to IntelliSpell...
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A nice alternative to try (though not free) is the spellchecker that comes with DevExpress CodeRush.
Jesse Houwing - 03 09 09 - 00:23