Wide Range of Supported Controls

Support for a wide range of Standard and DevExpress text-aware controls including the complete integration with the DevExpress Rich Text Editor for Silverlight.

Help Topic: Supported Controls

Check As You Type Mode

When you use the DevExpress DXRichEdit control, words that are not in the dictionary can be underlined using wavy red lines. The DXSpellChecker automatically checks spelling as you type, word by word.

Dictionary Availability

Built-in support for custom dictionaries in a plain text format and the most popular dictionary formats: Ispell, OpenOffice and Hunspell.

Help Topic: Dictionaries

Ready-to-Use Spelling Dialogs

A Microsoft Office style error indication dialog ● Pre-built Spelling Options editor ● Dictionary dialogs allow end-users to add unrecognized words to a dictionary. As one would expect from this type of control, end-users can build a custom word list as their needs dictate.

Help Topic: Dialogs

Spelling Options

Spell checker options allow you to ignore emails, URLs, mixed case/upper-case words, repeated words and words with numbers within them.

Mixed Language Text Checking

You can change the language and the corresponding dictionary during text checking.

API

The DXSpellChecker's API includes methods to check an arbitrary string, a text editor's content or all text editor controls within a specified container. You can handle specially designed events to fully manage the spell checking process - including suppression of built-in forms, modification to suggestion lists, skipped words, manual error processing, etc.