By Wes Stueve on 4/21/2008 8:00 AM

I am looking at some java utilities that I would like to have in C#/.NET bindings for, and I remembered that Microsoft has a really useful, but not altogether great, tool for doing this. It's called the Java Language Conversion Assistant. I did a quick search and found that it is packaged with VS.NET 2005. I remember briefly with the 2003 version that you could access it from the File -> Convert menu in VS. I tried the same in VS.NET 2005, but it wasn't there. So I went through all of the menu bars, and couldn't find it anywhere. I searched google and found nothing. Eventually (after an embarassingly long amount of time) I entered the correct combinations of words in google and found an obscure reference on where it could be. So, for those of you that are missing this, here is how to start the JLCA 3.0 to convert java to C# in Visual Studio .NET 2005. First, is it in File -> Convert?

If not:

Second, go to Tools -> Customize -> Commands -> Rearrange Commands -> Menu Bar: File -> Add ... -> Add Command Dialog -> File -> Convert -> Hit Ok...

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