# TX Text Control

> Add spell checking to TX Text Control in Windows Forms: a TextControl with a ribbon and TXSpellChecker on .NET or .NET Framework, its context menu and dialog.

- **Product:** TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms
- **Section:** Documentation
- **Kind:** Topic
- **Path:** TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms > Getting Started > TX Text Control
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- **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/
- **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/llms.txt
- **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/llms-full.txt

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TX Spell .NET was built to work with TX Text Control, and together they need no code for spell checking. Four tutorials take you from an empty project to a word processor that underlines misspelled words, corrects them from the context menu and walks through them in a dialog.

![A TextControl with red zigzag lines under misspelled words and the spell check context menu of the word "sampke".](https://docs.textcontrol.com/assets/img/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/textcontrol-context-menu.5b60b5a7.webp)

### Choose a Project Type

| Project | Choose it when | Tutorial |
|---|---|---|
| .NET 8 or higher | You start a new application | [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt) |
| .NET Framework 4.8 | You add spell checking to an existing .NET Framework application | [Create a .NET Framework Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dotnet-framework/llms-full.txt) |

In a .NET project, the components come from NuGet packages, which also bring the licenses and the US English language data. In a .NET Framework project, the setups install the assemblies and the language data, and create the toolbox tabs.

### Recommended Order

1. One of the two tutorials above: the editor with a ribbon, the `TXSpellChecker` component, and the connection between them.
2. [Correct Words from the Context Menu](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/context-menu/llms-full.txt): replace, ignore and add words with a right-click.
3. [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, from the ribbon, the context menu or a button.

### Pages in This Section

- [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt): a .NET application with TX Text Control, a ribbon and TX Spell .NET.
- [Create a .NET Framework Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dotnet-framework/llms-full.txt): the same application for the .NET Framework, with the assemblies of the setups.
- [Correct Words from the Context Menu](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/context-menu/llms-full.txt): the suggestions and commands of the spell check context menu.
- [Open the Spell Check Dialog](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dialog/llms-full.txt): the spelling dialog of TX Text Control and the customizable dialog of TX Spell .NET.

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## In This Section

- [Correct Words From the Context Menu](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/context-menu/llms-full.txt): Correct misspelled words by right-clicking a Windows Forms TextControl: suggestions, Ignore All, Add To Dictionary, shared menus and SpellCheckContextMenuStrip.
- [Open the Spell Check Dialog](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dialog/llms-full.txt): Open a spelling dialog in Windows Forms from the Proofing ribbon tab, the context menu or a button with TextControl.SpellCheckDialog or SpellCheckDialog.Show.
- [Create a .NET Framework Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/dotnet-framework/llms-full.txt): Add TX Spell .NET to a Windows Forms App (.NET Framework) with TX Text Control: toolbox, SpellChecker property, language data folders and licenses.licx.
- [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt): Create a .NET Windows Forms app with TextControl, a ribbon and TXSpellChecker from NuGet, connect SpellChecker and underline misspelled words as you type.

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## Nearby

- **Previous:** [Getting Started](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/llms-full.txt)
- **Next:** [Create Your First Windows Forms Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-spell-dotnet-winforms/getting-started/tx-text-control/first-application/llms-full.txt)