Maintaining updates to a dictionary so spellcheck recognizes new words

[MMock]

This question has to do with spellcheck and its dictionary and the fact that my application is a WinForms click-once deployment.

The industry we are in is radio communications and like any industry there are words we use everyday that aren't in the standard dictionary. I have added a spellcheck to several controls in my Windows application where people type the service they performed for a customer. Right now, they can add words to the dictionary when a word is flagged red and it is actually correct.

The problem is, the next time I deploy, I wipe out the dictionary additions.

What we are thinking about doing is adding a form that only administrative access level users will have, and they can add words to the dictionary. The dictionary will get deployed once and then added to on the network and left alone so I don't clobber it. I am not sure how to do this. I don't know if I would just remove the dictionary files from the project, but I think if i did that the next deployment would simply not have them anymore. So how do I orchestrate admin users maintaining the dictionary?

Thank you.

[jdc2000]

Possibly useful links:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vis...n?view=vs-2017

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vis...y?view=vs-2017

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vis...s?view=vs-2017

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vis...n?view=vs-2017

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I assume as you are doing ClickOnce deployment that your dictionary file is being deployed be default somewhere under the application root?

If so then i would suggest moving it somewhere under the AppData folder.

This article i found might be useful

https://robindotnet.wordpress.com/20...konce-updates/

[MMock]

No, none of those is quite what I'm looking for. Maybe no one has ever wanted to do this. NSA's link looked promising but the problem is each user would have their own dictionary stored locally. So if I added a word to the dictionary like "opto", the next time I ran it would find it in my local file. But when another user runs, he would also have to add opto to his dictionary. I would like to add opto to a dictionary and have it then be defined to all users (that is working), and the next time the application was deployed have opto still be defined (that is not working. The dictionary people have been adding to would get wiped out each subsequent deployment). So this issue is how to have one central file, then "get it back" so I can redeploy it with all updates people have been making. Maybe that's crazy and not how dictionaries work, but it seems a waste of effort for every single user to have to maintain his own copy of the dictionary when they're all adding the same words.