Trying to set Project Properties from custom task in C#

 I'm working on a custom task dll trying to determine how to set the
project properties.  When I run a build script with my custom task it
works fine using the following syntax:

Properties["Color"] = "Red";

However, when I run this in the VS2008 IDE  while debugging the code,  I
keep getting a nullreferenceException on the Project object.   Is there
any way to create a project object based on a passed in name if the
project object doesn't exist or is Null?

Right now I have a class called ConnectionInformation which has methods
for connecting to TFS and another class  called BaseTask which inherits
from the NAnt.Core.Task and has an instantiation of
ConnectionInformation to pass on to other tasks in my DLL.  I'm doing
this so that in my Build script I can set my connection information once
and refer back to it as an element in each task that needs it.  

I'm just not sure how to instantiate a test Project object for debugging
purposes. 

Thanks in advance,
Jim

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