Visual Studio 2013 spell checker

Question

I have dyslexia and am starting my first collaborative project with other students using the IDE Visual Studio 2013. I fear that my miss spellings may cause errors and annoyance to the rest of the team, so I wish to keep my spelling mistakes to a minimum.

Projects on which I work alone are less of a problem, as if I spell the word wrong I tend to spell it wrong throughout the program in the same way - but I feel I would still get use out of a spell checker for these too.

I have had a google but only found a few plugins, most of which are outdated. Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

There is this one that has been updated recently: Visual Studio Spell Checker

You can just add it from VS by going to the Extensions.
Tools -> Extensions and Updates -> Online -> Search box -> Search for Spell Checker

I just tried it out, works well.

Answer 2

If you are using the Code Analysis/Fxcop rules built into visual studio you could add the following to your ruleset:

• CA1703: Resource strings should be spelled correctly
• CA1704: Identifiers should be spelled correctly
• CA2204: Literals should be spelled correctly

Answer 3

If you have ReSharper (highly recommended, but a bit pricey) then I can recommend ReSpeller. Costs only $10 and is completely integrated into ReSharper.

http://etherealcode.com/respeller/

At the same time, I can mention that ReSpeller (at least for the version I have, 2.3 for ReSharper 7.1) has one unfortunate quirk, but it is an option that can fortunately be turned off.

ReSpeller is unexpectedly accepting "prefered" as correct spelling

Answer 4

You can try this too.

I am using this spell checker it is awesome. . .

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7c8341f1-ebac-40c8-92c2-476db8d523ce

Another spell checker

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/F9CDA5D8-10AF-4CC6-9D17-207222A3FD13?SRC=VSIDE