NAnt intellisense in VS.NET 2003

I know, a zillion people wrote about intellisense in VS.NET for NAnt files already, but just as a reminder for myself I write this blog entry:

• Create a file NAntGenerateSchema.build with the following NAnt code, modify the SchemaFile property for your installation diretory/version of VS.NET:
  
  

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <project name="GenerateNAntSchemaForVS.NET" default="genschema">
      <property name="SchemaFile" value="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml\NAnt.xsd"/>
      <target name="genschema">
          <nantschema output="${SchemaFile}" target-ns="http://nant.sf.net/schemas/nant.xsd"/>
      </target>
  </project>

• Call this script each time you add some extra tasks dll’s or when you move to a new version of NAnt, because it generates a schema based on the available NAnt tasks.

• Add you NAnt build file to your VS.NET project (if possible).

• Open the .build file in VS.NET using File->Open…->File…, and then notice the extra options in the lower right corner of the open file window, select Open With…:
  

• Now select to open this file as selected below, also click Set as Default:
  

• Set in the properties window for this file the targetSchema to the NAnt schema:
  

• Repeat for all your build files. Done.