Visual Studio Hacks

Spellcheck Your Code and Comments #94

Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

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Once the add-in has been installed, launch Visual Studio. By default, this

add-in is not loaded. To load it, go to the Tools menu and select the Add-In

Manager option. This will list the add-ins currently installed on your sys-

tem, which should include the Spell Checker for VS.NET 2003 Version 1.0

Add-In. To enable this add-in, check its checkbox (see Figure 13-9). You can

also opt to have it loaded on each startup by checking the Startup checkbox.

Once you have checked the add-in’s checkbox, click OK. You should, at this

point, see a spellchecking icon in the toolbar. Additionally, there should be a

new option in the Tools menu titled Spell Checker for VS.NET.

Configure the Spellchecker Options

Before you run the spellchecker for the first time, take a moment to config-

ure the options. To configure the options, start the spellchecker add-in by

clicking on the appropriate toolbar icon or menu option. Doing so will dis-

play the Spell Checker for VS.NET dialog, which contains an assortment of

tabs. The first tab, Code/Text, contains the results of the spellcheck. The

remaining tabs contain the assorted spellchecker options. Let’s examine

these tabs.

Specify what types of content to search. The first options-related tab is

named, aptly enough, Options, and is shown in Figure 13-10.

Figure 13-9. Check the Spell Checker ...