# Create a .NET Framework Application > Add TX Spell .NET to a Windows Forms App (.NET Framework) with TX Text Control: toolbox, SpellChecker property, language data folders and licenses.licx. - **Product:** TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms - **Section:** Documentation - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms > Getting Started > TX Text Control > Create a .NET Framework Application - **1090 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dotnet-framework/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dotnet-framework/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dotnet-framework/llms-full.txt --- Existing Windows Forms applications often still run on the .NET Framework, and TX Spell .NET works there as well. The result is the same word processor as in [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt), with spell checking as you type, a context menu and hyphenation. What differs is how the components get into the project: there are no NuGet packages; the setups install the assemblies and create the toolbox tabs. ### Prerequisites - Visual Studio on Windows with the .NET Framework 4.8. - The setups of TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms 11.0 and TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 34.0, the full or the trial versions. For .NET Framework projects, they provide the assemblies, the language data and the toolbox tabs. See [Installing the Product](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/installation/setup/llms-full.txt). ### Create the Project 1. Open Visual Studio and create a new project. 2. Select **C#** from the **Languages** list, **Windows** from the **Platform** list and **Desktop** as the **Project Type**. 3. Select the project template **Windows Forms App (.NET Framework)** and click **Next**. ![The Create a new project dialog of Visual Studio with the template Windows Forms App (.NET Framework) selected.](https://docs.textcontrol.com/assets/img/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/vs-new-project-netfx.ca19be82.webp) 4. Enter a project name, select **.NET Framework 4.8** in the **Framework** list and click **Create**. ### Add the Editor to the Form 1. With **Form1** open in the designer, find the tab **TX Text Control 34.0** in the **Toolbox**. The setup of TX Text Control created it. 2. Select **TextControl** and draw the control onto the form. 3. Click the smart tag in the upper right corner of the `TextControl`. In the **Wizards** group, click **Add a Ribbon**, **Add a Status Bar**, **Add a Ruler** and **Add a Vertical Ruler**, then **Arrange Controls Automatically**. 4. Select the ribbon by clicking its blue **File** tab title and click its smart tag. Click **Add a RibbonProofingTab**, the tab with the proofing commands, and any other tabs you want, such as **Add a RibbonFormattingTab**. ### Add and Connect the Spell Checker 1. Find the toolbox tab of TX Spell .NET, which the setup of TX Spell .NET created, and drag **TXSpellChecker** onto the form. It appears as *txSpellChecker1* in the component tray below the form. 2. Select the `TextControl`. In the **Properties** window, open the drop-down list of **SpellChecker** and select **txSpellChecker1**. ![The Properties window of textControl1 with the SpellChecker drop-down open and txSpellChecker1 selected, and the smart tag links below.](https://docs.textcontrol.com/assets/img/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/properties-spellchecker-fx.ce30bf88.webp) 3. Set **IsSpellCheckingEnabled** to **True**. 4. To hyphenate words at the end of a line, set **IsHyphenationEnabled** to **True**. 5. To detect the language of the text, set **IsLanguageDetectionEnabled** to **True**. ### Run the Application Press **F5**. The application behaves like the .NET application of the first tutorial: misspelled words are underlined once they are complete, English is checked out of the box, the context menu offers suggestions and opens the spell check dialog, and the last word of a full line is hyphenated. The **Proofing** tab of the ribbon turns spell checking and hyphenation on and off. ### What Is Different in a .NET Framework Project - **The assemblies come from the setups.** The project references *TXSpell.dll* and *TXSpell.Windows.Forms.dll* from the *Assembly* folder of the TX Spell .NET installation, next to the assemblies of TX Text Control. - **The language data is found in the installation.** The spell checker looks for its dictionaries, hyphenation lists, thesaurus files and language recognition data in folders next to the application or, on the development machine, below the *Assembly* folder of the installation. Nothing needs to be copied while you develop. When you deploy the application, ship the folders *Dictionaries*, *HyphenationLists*, *SynonymLists* and *LanguageRecognition* with it. See [Deploying .NET Framework Applications](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/deployment/dotnet-framework/llms-full.txt). - **The license comes through licenses.licx.** In .NET Framework projects, the licenses of TX Text Control and TX Spell .NET are embedded through the project's *licenses.licx* file when you build. See [Licensing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/troubleshooting/licensing/llms-full.txt) for the entries. ### The Finished Sample The setup installs this tutorial as a finished project below *TX Spell 11.0.NET for Windows Forms\\Samples\\WinForms* in your *Documents* folder: *CSharp\\TextControl\\Simple* in C#, and *VB.NET\\TextControl\\Simple* in Visual Basic. ### Next Steps - [Correct Words from the Context Menu](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/context-menu/llms-full.txt): try the commands of the menu. - [Open the Spell Check Dialog](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dialog/llms-full.txt): correct the whole document in one pass. - [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt): the same application for .NET 8 or higher. --- ## Nearby - **Previous:** [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt) - **Next:** [Correct Words From the Context Menu](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/context-menu/llms-full.txt)