title: DotNet Soundex Function
body: <p>I have a database table that has a column of SQLServer Soundex encoded last name + first name.
  In my C# program I would like to convert a string using soundex for use in my query.</p>
  
  <p>Is there either a standard string function for soundex in the dotnet library or is the an open source library that implements it (perhaps as an extension method on string)?</p>