The past couple weeks has been fairly productive. I have generally learned the SDK and have a basic editor up and running.
1) Familiarizing myself with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK
2) Learning what interfaces used currently relate to the base classes now provided by Microsoft
3) Getting a basic editor up and running
4) Implement syntax highlighting
5) Implement catching keyboard strokes
6) Implement intellisense
7) Implement word completion
8) Implement adding facts entered in the Editor to the ORM diagram
The next big challenge will be learning the ORM object model and refactoring the parsing of objects. Currently all of the intellisense and such are just using dummy data, so that will have to be reworked as well.