Spellcheck for text box

Question

_{Monday, January 30, 2017 9:37 PM}

I am using VS2015 with .Net framework 4.6 and vb.net. I want to add a spellcheck to one of the text boxes in my project. I have done some research and found that there is a spellcheck class under the System.Windows.Controls namespace. I have added that namespace as a reference in my project (showed as System.Windows.Controls.Ribbon). Then I added an import command at the top of the window forms code (See below). But I am still unable to see that option when I try to set the spellcheck for my text box to true. What am I missing?

Thanks.

Imports System.Windows.Controls

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_{Monday, January 30, 2017 10:47 PM | 2 votes}

One of the methods : Add Auto Spell Check in VB.NET TextBox

_{Wednesday, February 1, 2017 5:19 AM}

Hi J-Bal,

Try the code, it works fine in my WPF project.

XAML:

<Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

  <StackPanel>
    <TextBox SpellCheck.IsEnabled="True" Name="myTextBox"></TextBox>
  </StackPanel>

</Page>

VB code behind:

Imports System
Imports System.Windows
Imports System.Windows.Controls

Namespace SDKSample
    Partial Public Class SpellCheckExample
        Inherits Page
        Public Sub New()
            Dim myStackPanel As New StackPanel()

            'Create TextBox
            Dim myTextBox As New TextBox()
            myTextBox.Width = 200

            ' Enable spellchecking on the TextBox.
            myTextBox.SpellCheck.IsEnabled = True

            ' Alternatively, the SetIsEnabled method could be used
            ' to enable or disable spell checking like this:
            ' SpellCheck.SetIsEnabled(myTextBox, True)

            myStackPanel.Children.Add(myTextBox)
            Me.Content = myStackPanel
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Please give it a try in your side.

Best regards,

Fletch

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