Including Microsoft Office Spell Checker in own application

Question

I heard a while ago that the Microsoft Office Spell Checker could be included in own application by using the COM interface of it. Someone remembers the details? Which dll, or w

Answer 1

I have been investigating this just a month ago. It seems that it was possible, but if I remember well since Office 2003 the embeddable COM component has been removed. You will have to look for older versions if you want to do so. Unfortunately I don't have any link, but it took me few minutes to find the appropiate explanations in Microsoft forums.

I have been evaluating some commercial editors with spellchecking support, so we'll buy one of these.

BTW, I need multiple languages so I looked for alternatives to Microsoft, but for english and another couple of languages, you can use directly Microsoft Rich text editor. I didn't play with it however.