
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 ...