I was looking at the WebDevTools team blog for some information on the VS2008 compatible version of Web Deployment Projects (which will release shortly) and noticed that they have created a SpellChecker add-in for VS2005 & VS2008. It's not even new - at v2.1 already - but it's yet another thing that missed my radar.

I'm sure there are plenty of these available (check James Avery's Visual Studio Hacks for some great tips on using Spell Checkers in your code), but as someone who does not code on a team, I have never thought much about the spelling errors, (well let's just call them typos) in my comments.

But now that I think about it, I do share code, in the form of sample code from conference presentations. I'm the kind of person who is stopped in her tracks when I'm reading something and there is a blatant spelling error ("typo") or horrible grammatical error. (For ESL writers, these don't even register) I'm sure plenty of my own grammatical errors register equally for other readers!

I dug a little further and learned there are also FXCop spell checking rules that had originally not been moved into the VS2008 Code Analysis (built in FXCop), but after lots of complaints, this was changed.