I have a requirement to allow spell checking for some textboxes in a Silverlight application.

I'm looking for a server-side solution. By server-side I mean that the dictionary doesn't reside on the client.

I have Telerik RadControls for Silverlight, which has the RadSpellChecker and the RadRichTextBox which supports spell checking, but as far as I know have to include the 3mb+ dictionary in the XAP file and the size of the xap is a concern.

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I know there are a number of vendors that provides webservice calls for spell checking, I've looked at a few but never went far enough to investigate the APIs. I believe most of them are standard wsdl type webservices. Have you googled it? I find it interesting that the Telerik dictionary is so big, when cellphones first got spell checkers / predictive text you could fit most of the most common English words in to less than 1/2 a Mb, are you sure they don't have options around subsets of dictionaries etc

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