Is there a way to force Visual Studio 2008 (or below) to use a spellchecker for comments?

Question

I'm not sure if this can be done at all, but it'd certainly make my life easier. I was wondering if maybe the MS spellchecker could be used as a plug-in for other applications... or something like that.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do it via this free add-in.

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Answer 2

Visual Assist from Whole Tomato comes with a Spell Checker, along with many other wondrous productivity enhancing features - if you're using Visual Studio without Visual Assist you're really missing out :)

Answer 3

You could use FXCop and write a custom rule to spellcheck (link) your comments

Answer 4

Well, I don't know about Visual Studio, but both Eclipse and Emacs have support for spellchecking inside comments. I usually have it off, because it too often gets in the way and complains about things like variable names, but then I don't really need a spellchecker (most of the time).

Answer 5

There is a tool for automatically correcting typical typos everywhere you type:

AutoHotkey and the AutoCorrect for English Script