8.5 Spell Checking ASP.NET and HTML with the HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker Add-in

What can be more embarrassing than publishing a web site with a cool design, advanced layout, and compliance with all modern standards, only to discover the next day that the pages are full of typos? Wouldn’t it be nice to have spellchecking available in your ASP.NET, classic ASP, and plain HTML editors?

Mikhail Arkhipov wrote the HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker add-in to Visual Studio 2005 to quickly check element content and element attribute values for spelling errors. It is smart enough to tell which attribute values contain human-readable text and which do not. You can even check XML and text files.

HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker at a Glance

Tool

HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker

Version covered

1.0

Home page

http://www.arkhipov.com/Default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=5

Power Tools page

http://www.windevpowertools.com/tools/136

Summary

Visual Studio 2005 add-in that allows the user to proof spelling of text in HTML and ASP.NET pages

License type

Freeware

Online resources

Blog, email

Supported Frameworks

Visual Studio 2005

Getting Started

The HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker add-in requires any edition of Visual Studio 2005 except Express. It uses Microsoft Office 2003’s spelling engine, so at least one major Office 2003 application (such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) must also be installed.

To install HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker:

  1. Close Visual Studio ...

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