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Spell Checker Using Hunspell C#

Getting Components

1. Add the reference of all the DLLs (that is specified in preceding table)
2. Copy en_us.aff and en_us.dic at C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DevServer\10.0

Hunspell Methods

1. Spell – This method checks the spelling of input string (English). If the spelling is correct then the method returns true else false.
2. Suggest – In this method we will pass a string and this method will return the suggestions.

Sample Application

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using NHunspell;

public partial class _Default: System.Web.UI.Page {
  protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    using(Hunspell hunspell = new Hunspell("en_us.aff", "en_US.dic")) {
      bool result = hunspell.Spell("table");

      List < string > suggestions = hunspell.Suggest("intance");
    }
  }
}

Output