Congratulations to Sachin S, our C# Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more information about this monthly contest), see the Wiki article: TechNet Guru Awards, May 2013.

Sachin S took the gold, with this contribution:

Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript) 

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Visual C# Technical Guru - May 2013

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Description

It implements the component wrapper over Win32 SpellChecker library. A wrapper that it can be easily used by caller of Windows Store App irrespective of Application Language and without worrying about C++ and COM intricacies.

 
Spell checking client sample (C++) 
 

Also it needs to have spell checker provider installed. See the below link for more details

Spell checking provider sample

Internals

The functionality to check spellings is exposed by the ISpellCheckerFactory and ISpellChecker interface.

ISpellCheckerFactory : public IUnknown
    {
    public:
        virtual /* [propget] */ HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE get_SupportedLanguages( 
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt IEnumString **value) = 0;

        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IsSupported( 
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in LPCWSTR languageTag,
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__out BOOL *value) = 0;

        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE CreateSpellChecker( 
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in LPCWSTR languageTag,
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt ISpellChecker **value) = 0;

    };

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Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript)

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