Comments on: NAnt http://www.devatwork.nl A day in the life of a developer Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:01:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: bubai http://www.devatwork.nl/articles/nant-articles/comment-page-1/#comment-2787 bubai Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:09:05 +0000 http://www.devatwork.nl/index.php/articles/nant-articles/#comment-2787 There is a new .Net build tool (a very intelligent wrapper) called NUBuild. Its lightweight, open source and extremely easy to setup and provides almost no-touch maintenance. I really like this new tool and we have made it standard tool for our continuous build and integration of our projects (we have about 400 projects across 75 developers). Try it out. http://nubuild.codeplex.com/ Easy to use command line interface Ability to target all .Net framework version i.e. 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 Supports XML based configuration Supports both project and file references Automatically generates the “complete ordered build list” for a given project – No touch maintenance. Ability to detect and display circular dependencies Perform parallel build - automatically decides which of the projects in the generated build list can be built independently. Ability to handle proxy assemblies Provides visual clue to the build process e.g. showing “% completed”, “current status” etc. Generates detailed execution log both in XML and text format Easily integrated with Cruise-Control.Net continuous integration system Can use custom logger like XMLLogger when targeting 2.0 + version Ability to parse error logs Ability to deploy built assemblies to user specified location Ability to synchronize source code with source-control system Version management capability There is a new .Net build tool (a very intelligent wrapper) called NUBuild. Its lightweight, open source and extremely easy to setup and provides almost no-touch maintenance. I really like this new tool and we have made it standard tool for our continuous build and integration of our projects (we have about 400 projects across 75 developers). Try it out.

http://nubuild.codeplex.com/

Easy to use command line interface
Ability to target all .Net framework version i.e. 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5
Supports XML based configuration
Supports both project and file references
Automatically generates the “complete ordered build list” for a given project – No touch maintenance.
Ability to detect and display circular dependencies
Perform parallel build – automatically decides which of the projects in the generated build list can be built independently.
Ability to handle proxy assemblies
Provides visual clue to the build process e.g. showing “% completed”, “current status” etc.
Generates detailed execution log both in XML and text format
Easily integrated with Cruise-Control.Net continuous integration system
Can use custom logger like XMLLogger when targeting 2.0 + version
Ability to parse error logs
Ability to deploy built assemblies to user specified location
Ability to synchronize source code with source-control system
Version management capability

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