Windows App spellcheck

Question

Hi... I was wondering if there is another way to spell check a Windows app instead what I've been of using: "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word". I can't buy a spell checking add-on. I also cannot use open source and would like the spell check to be dynamic..any suggestions?

EDIT:

I have seen several similar questions, the problem is they all suggest using open source applications (which I would love) or Microsoft Word.

I am currently using Word to spell check and it slows my current application down and causes several glitches in my application. Word is not a clean solution so I'm really wanting to find some other way.. Is my only other option to recreate my app as a WPF app so I can take advantage of the SpellCheck Class?

Answer 1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.spellcheck.aspx

Answer 2

So..answering my own question.. I guess I have to rewrite my application as a WPF app. yay me

Answer 3

If I were you I would download the data from the English Wiktionary and parse it to obtain a list of all English words (for instance). Then you could rather easily write at least a primitive spell-checker yourself. In fact, I use a parsed version of the English Wiktionary in my own mathematical application AlgoSim. If you'd like, I could send you the data file.

Update

I have now published a parsed word list at english.zip (942 kB, 383735 entries, zip). The data originates from the English Wiktionary, and as such, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

To obtain a list like this, you can either download all articles on Wiktionary as a huge XML file containing all Wiki- and HTML-formatted articles. This is then more or less trivial to parse. Alternatively, you can run a bot on the site. I got help to obtain a parsed file from a user at Wiktionary (I seem to have forgotten his name, though...), and this file (english.txt in english.zip) is a further processed version of the file I got.