visualnode was a fork of http://pytools.codeplex.com and they've joined the NTVS project (which is also forked from the same source). Bart Read from red-gate did the npm GUI for NTVS in fact. they stated that they'll shut down visualnode.
Firstly, thanks for signing up for the beta of Visual Node, and trying out the tool. Your feedback has been incredibly helpful to us.
Today we have a very exciting announcement for you. Since the summer Red Gate has been working with Microsoft on a free, open source Node development environment for Visual Studio called Node Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS). We've just released the first public alpha of NTVS, which you can download from:
NTVS offers what we believe is a much richer development experience than Visual Node, including:
Various Node project types,
IntelliSense and editing,
Debugging, including remote debugging on Linux,
Profiling,
npm,
Azure deployment,
Support for both Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you again for participating in the Visual Node beta program. As I said, your feedback has been very helpful, and continues to influence the development of NTVS.
If you have any questions about anything in this email please do post to the discussion URL on Codeplex - we'd love to hear from you.