Spell Checking - Word Automation vs Third Party???

[CFPR]

I need to incorporate spell checking into my applications. Specifically, Spanish Spell Checking...
Can anyone comment on the pro's/con's of using Word Automation vs a third party tool? Can this be accomplished with Word Automation?!?

Also, I have only found one third party spell checking tool out there (dll based). Can anyone provide links to other tools if available?

Thanks..CF

 

[mkrausnick]

That depends on whether you can guarantee that your users always have MS Word installed. If so, here's a good article from Rick Strahl on how to do it:

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/1382.aspx

If you're comfortable with doing automation, my opinion is that's the way to go, as long as, as I said, your users will always have MS Word.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[Mike Lewis]

CFPR,

One of my clients had to make the same decision. He opted for a third-party tool rather than Automation, but I don't know if his situation is similar to yours.

He wrote an article about this, which is at

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/foxst-16.htm

I don't know whether the product in question has a Spanish dictionary. You could try asking the gente bien informada at

http://www.portalfox.com/index.php

Mike



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Visual FoxPro (www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk)
Crystal Reports (www.ml-crystal.com)

 

[craigsboyd]

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