NAnt Intellisense in Visual Studio 2005

Kevin Miller has a great tutorial for getting Intellisense working for NAnt under Visual Studio 2005.

AnkhSVN and VS Command Shell

Add the following tools to your toolset if you're doing doing Continuous Integration with your .NET projects:

AnkhSVN - A Subversion SourceControl Provider for Visual Studio. The software allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. With AnkhSVN you no longer need to leave your IDE to perform tasks like viewing the status of your source code, updating your Subversion working copy and committing changes. You can even browse your repository and you can plug-in your favorite diff tool.

VS Command Shell - VSCmdShell provides users with a shell window inside the Visual Studio IDE that can be used for Visual Studio commands as well. Current version allows user to use either Windows Command Shell (cmd.exe) or Windows PowerShell.

Got Atlas Installed for Viual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0

Atlas is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized standards based Web applications. It works with VS 2005 and .NET 2.0.

I'm excited to have it installed last night. Played around with it for a bit and also started a new project to learn more about the new Atlas framework and AJAX.

Here are some advantages of the new Atlas framework:

• Atlas empowers ASP.NET developers to effortlessly create richer web experiences.


• Atlas includes a client-side Javascript framework for easy script creation and reuse.


• Atlas makes it super easy to consume services from ASP.NET.


• Atlas makes building composite applications from the programmable web a snap.

You can learn more about the new Atlas framework at atlas.asp.net.

Got Visual Studio 2005 Installed

I attended a Microsoft Road Show on December 1, 2005 to learn about the new Visual Studio and MS SQL 2005. I also got myself a free copy of the standard edition for both of these products. The Road Show was in Abingdon, Maryland, and it was the very first Microsoft Road Show that I had ever attended. Really cool presentations! I am really looking forward to go to more of these events in the future.