How to deploy Custom Dictionary

[Patrick]

How do I add, use, and include in my deployment a Custom Dictionary for use with radSpellChecker?  I have an internal use application where they use a lot medical words and I want to add a bunch in ahead of time for them.

[Stefan]

Hello Patrick,

Thank you for writing.

Loading custom dictionaries in RadSpellChecker is described in the following article: http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/spellchecker-dictionaries.html. Please take a look at it and let us know if you need further assistance.
 
All the best,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Patrick]

Thanks for the link.  Question though;  What I really need is to be able to add a bunch of words to the existing English dictionary.  In looking inside the *.tdf it looks like it is simply 1 word per line but what is the stuff afterwords, after each colon(:) suppose to signify?  I saw, somewhere on your site, an OLD project for converting to *.tdf but I couldn't get it to load/run at all.  If I knew the importance of the colon's I could just make my own.

Thanks,

[Stefan]

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your reply.

Please consider the following code snippet which demonstrates how to add words to the default dictionary:

IControlSpellChecker textBoxControlSpellChecker = this.radSpellChecker1.GetControlSpellChecker(typeof(RadTextBox));
textBoxControlSpellChecker.SpellChecker.AddWord("YourWordHere");
radSpellChecker1.Check(radTextBox1);

In regards to the words separated by semi column in the TDF file, those are metaphone's. Here are a few links regarding this matter:

• Methaphone wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone 
• Methaphone generator: http://www.kalyanchakravarthy.net/stuff/spellchecker.php?word=hello 
• The algorithm: http://www.drdobbs.com/the-double-metaphone-search-algorithm/184401251?pgno=2 
• Soundex wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex 

I hope that you find this information useful.

 
Kind regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team