Error using SpellChecker in code behind

[Martin Sherene]

I'm trying to use the Telerik.Web.UI.SpellChecker object to check some text server side, but keep getting the following error in the process: "No dictionary loaded. Set the DictionaryPath property from the spell checker settings or copy the dictionaries to ~/App_Data/RadSpell/".  I have two samples of code, both of which result in the same error being thrown.

Case 1:

SpellChecker spellChecker = new SpellChecker("~/App_Data/RadSpell");
spellChecker.Text = "Some sample text tecct";
SpellCheckErrors errors = spellChecker.Errors;

Case 2:

SpellChecker spellChecker = new SpellChecker("~/App_Data/RadSpell");
spellChecker.Text = "Some sample text tecct";
SpellCheckErrors errors = spellChecker.CheckText();

I've verified that the dictionary files do exist within the ~/App_Data/RadSpell directory, and they even get loaded into the SpellChecker object (I stepped through the debugger and used the immediate window to get values for spellChecker.CustomDictionarySource.DictionaryPath and spellChecker.CustomDictionarySource.Language:

spellChecker.CustomDictionarySource.DictionaryPath
"~/App_Data/RadSpell"
spellChecker.CustomDictionarySource.Language
"en-US"

These values seem to get set only after I have set the Text value of the SpellChecker object; prior to that (and just after creating the object), these values are null.

I'm using version 2010.3.1109.35 of the Telerik.Web.UI library for .Net 3.5.

Thanks for your help.

[Rumen]

Hi Martin,

You should set the path using the Server.MapPath method:

SpellChecker spellChecker = new SpellChecker(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/RadSpell"));
spellChecker.Text = "Some sample text tecct";
SpellCheckErrors errors = spellChecker.Errors;

Greetings,
Rumen
the Telerik team