LOGIN | REGISTER NOW | SUBSCRIBE
 
print Printable version 
Most Read Latest News Blog Resources
Three non-programming books for your booklist
Aside from programming skills, developers should know how management works and how to oper...
Microsoft pushes Windows Phone 7 development tools
Ahead of the smartphone's release, Microsoft is letting developers download its tools in a...
Windows & .NET Watch: LightSwitch turns up
Microsoft's newest development environment will need to go a long way to fulfill its poten...
JavaOne returns with an Oracle twist
Oracle OpenWorld will be bigger than ever this year as the event adds JavaOne to the sched...
Digg!  Digg
Reddit  Reddit
Slashdot  Slashdot
Share on facebook  Facebook
Share on Twitter  Twitter


            iphoneapp GET THE APP!

ComponentOne ships spell checker for Visual Studio


By David Worthington
March 25, 2008 —  Former U.S. President Andrew Jackson once said, “It's a damn small mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.” That line may have served Old Hickory, but pithy sayings do not excuse a developer from introducing spelling errors into a project.

On March 5, ComponentOne released its new spell-checking extension for Microsoft Visual Studio, IntelliSpell. It adds a spell-checking capability to Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, allowing developers to check for mistakes in comments, HTML, resources, string constants and XML documents.

The code analysis tools that ship with Visual Studio provide spell checking for variable names, but go no further than that.

Chris Menegay, a principal consultant for Notion Solutions, said that when he speaks to his customers about developer coding standards, he is regularly asked whether Microsoft plans to add spell-checking capabilities into Visual Studio. Menegay quipped that the interest was there because, “Most developers can't spell properly.”

Billy Hollis, an author and Microsoft “regional director”—one of a number of volunteers recognized by Microsoft’s Developer Platform evangelism group for technical expertise—suggested that developers should use a spell checker to improve the perceived quality of their work.

“The only way users can judge quality is [by] what they see,” Hollis explained. “If they see misspelled words, many will assume they are seeing shoddy work.” He believes that many developers depend on testers to find spelling problems that appear in the user interface and submit the spelling errors as bug reports.

IntelliSpell Community Edition is available free of cost, but is limited to a U.S. English dictionary. A version with 16 different dictionaries, including non-American English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, is available as a paid upgrade.


Related Search Term(s): ComponentOne, Visual Studio


Share this link: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/31863
 

Add comment


Name*
Email*  
Country     


  • Comment
  • Preview
Loading



 
 
 
 
News on Monday
more>>
SharePoint Tech Report
more>>


   

 
 
Download Current Issue
ISSUE 9/1/2010 PDF

Need Back Issues?
DOWNLOAD HERE

Receive the print Edition?


 
blogs tab
VMworld hops to it
Data center operating systems play a big part at VMworld, but it's still too soon.
09/02/2010 01:42 PM EST

Certificate program for secure cloud computing
The Cloud Security Alliance introduces user certification.
09/01/2010 04:20 PM EST

What does the Army's Crusher tank and RIM's tablet computer have in common?
RIM plans to use Crusher tank technology on its yet-to-be-announced tablet.
08/25/2010 04:16 PM EST

 

Events calendar tab
Intel Developer Forum
9/13/2010 to 9/15/2010
San Francisco
Intel

JavaOne & Oracle Develop
9/19/2010 to 9/23/2010
San Francisco
Oracle

Oracle OpenWorld
9/19/2010 to 9/23/2010
San Francisco
Oracle

ESC Boston
9/20/2010 to 9/23/2010
Boston
TechInsights

High Performance Computing Financial Markets
9/20/2010
New York City
Flagg Management