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ASP Spell Check Review: Check Spelling in ASP and ASP.NET web applicationsDownloads
The increasing sophistication of web based applications makes it important that such applications offer rich functionality of comparable quality to that offered by desktop applications. One way of improving application quality is to add spell checking facilities to the application. This will also lead to an increase in the quality of data captured by the application. Writing a custom application to offer spell checking facilities for a website is obviously going to be a time-consuming operation. Thankfully there are a number of commercial offerings that can be used to easily add such functionality to a website. One such offering is ASP Spell Check. As its name obviously suggests, ASP Spell Check can be used to add spell checking facilities for Active Server Pages (ASP) applications. It may also be used for ASP.NET applications, as well as those based on Macromedia's Flash ActionScript, JavaScript and AJAX. IntegrationASP Spell Check is able to integrate with a variety of web technologies. At the most basic level of integration, it is able to allow the text within basic Active Server Pages HTML text boxes to be spell checked. However, it is also able to directly integrate with most rich text editing boxes that are commonly used when developing web applications that require anything more sophisticated than a basic text box. ASP Spell Check supports the common rich text editors such as Innova/YUSASP or the FCK editor. Integration with ASP.NET is also possible.DocumentationASP Spell Check's documentation is available as a Adobe Acrobat PDF (ideal for printing) and as a Windows Help file (useful for searching). The documentation covers installation, usage of the utility's functionality, and sample code for a variety of usage scenarios. There are a few typographical errors in the documentation, but the sample code looks to cover the most likely usage scenarios. Custom DictionariesASP Spell Check supports the use of custom dictionaries. This makes it possible to add lists of words that ASP Spell Check will automatically recognise when performing spelling checks. This is particularly useful for developing spell checking facilities for websites in specific vertical markets where a lot of technical terms are used, such as IT or medicine. Foreign Language SupportFor developers with multi-lingual websites who want to allow their website users to spell check in languages other than US English, ASP Spell Check has a number of alternative dictionaries available. Current languages include Australian English, British English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Portuguese and Spanish. Dictionaries can be specified by using the addLanguage method of the ASPSpellLink object, using syntax such as this: Dim ASPSpellingLinkSet ASPSpellingLink = New AspSpellLink ASPSpellingLink.Fields="TextArea1" ASPSpellingLink.addLanguage("Deutsch") More than one language dictionary may be used simultaneously, allowing spelling to be checked in several languages at once. Downloads
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Author detailsBrett Burridge has worked as a web developer since 1997 and has developed web applications for a range of corporations, start up busiensses and educational establishments. Brett is presently employed as an Internet developer and technical writer through his own company, Winnersh Triangle Web Solutions Limited. The company produces a number of innovative products, including a range of software documentation tools, which include the ASP Documentation Tool™, the .NET Documentation Tool for VB.NET and C#, and the SQL Server Documentation Tool. Other products include The Website Utility, which functions as a website error checker, search engine optimizer and ASP/ASP.NET search engine builder application. As well as the ASPAlliance, Brett has written articles for Ariadne.ac.uk, ASPToday, the software documentation portal www.softwaredocumentation.info, and has contributed recipes to the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook. links Outside web development, Brett is interested in travelling (here are my travel logs from New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo), digital photography (here's my photo gallery), tropical fishkeeping and collecting contemporary works of art by artists such as Doug Hyde. Contact Brett by emailing
Article history"ASP Spell Check Review: Check Spelling in ASP and ASP.NET web applications" published on ASPAlliance.com on 14 August 2006, last revised 16 August 2006. ASP Kitchen: Classic ASP Articles: ASP Spell Check Review: Check Spelling in ASP and ASP.NET web applications |
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