Windows 8 and Spell Check

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

WinRT XAML supports system-driven spell checking and auto-complete. Built in and right out of the box. The figure SpellCheckshows spell checking at work. Notice the squiggly underlining of the misspelled word, the options to correct or add to the dictionary or ignore.

You get both spell checking and autocompletion by setting just two properties on the TextBox. 

<TextBox x:Name="JobTitle"
         IsSpellCheckEnabled="True"
         IsTextPredictionEnabled="True"
         Width="200"
         Height="40"
         Grid.Row="2"
         Grid.Column="1"
         HorizontalAlignment="Left"
         Margin="5"
         VerticalAlignment="Center" />

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.
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5 Responses to Windows 8 and Spell Check

  1. Tomi Halonen says:
    May 29, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Did not work until changed this (Visual Studio 2013 Community) in Solution Explorer:
    Package.appxmanifest -> Application tab -> Default language: fi
    (Finland, in my case)
    List is here too:
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj657969.aspx

    Wish there could be something like ‘default’ in that list too…

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  4. Marcio says:
    December 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    I made this example and can not display the correct options. I need to install a plugin?

  5. Daniel Mackay says:
    December 9, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    How does the auto complete know which suggestions to make? Does it keep track of history, or do you have to populate it yourself?

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