Spelling checker for .NET

Question

Is there anyway to create C# spelling checker without using Office library? I would be happy with the simplest possible solution.

Answer 1

I know of this project NetSpell. It is in sourceforge and you can find many reference that discuss it in codeproject or search on google

Dont think the project is active recently, but still pretty good for use

http://www.aspcode.net/Use-NetSpell-in-your-ASPNET-20-application.aspx

Answer 2

use NHunspell.

http://www.maierhofer.de/en/open-source/nhunspell-net-spell-checker.aspx

personally, i have tried it. its good.

From the NHunspell project page:

NHunspell is based on Hunspell and brings the Open Office spell checking, hyphenation and thesaurus to the Microsoft® .NET Framework. NHunspell is a .NET (C#, VB) library and wraps the native libraries Hunspell, Hyphen and MyThes.

The integrated libraries are used in OpenOffice and work with the dictionaries published on OpenOffice.org.

NHunspell is licenced under: GPL/LGPL/MPL. Free use in commercial applications is permitted according to the LGPL and MPL licenses. Your commercial application can link against the NHunspell DLLs.

Answer 3

The simplest solution ever is to use WPF: TextBox and RichTextBox controls of WPF support spell checking by default, just add the control, enable spell checking, and you have done!

Here is a sample code:

<TextBox Margin="53,86,51,97" Name="textBox1" SpellCheck.IsEnabled="True"/>