Managing .NET development NAnt

When I was working with my last client, we developed our intranet site based on DotNetNuke framework and we needed a good building mechanism to make daily build. We tried our best with MS SourceSafe but did not work the way we wanted. Recently read this article by Justin Gehtland from TSS.NET and found very useful. Did anybody tried NAnt in real time multi developer team environment? But we also will have MSBuild from Microsoft in the future.

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  • yep. that article inspired me to learn and write a build file that pulls the latest code out of Subversion (source control), build it, and then deploy it to test/qa/production targets.

  • I've used NAnt as a build solution in a multi developer team. The experience wasn't as good as it could have been. The reason for this is due to the lack of integration with VS.Net and NAnt. Most developers just didn't want to take the time to learn how to use NAnt. So, our project(s) supported being build by both VS.Net and NAnt. The NAnt files were mainly used for nightly builds and database setup.



    That way, the developers could maintain their "comfort" of debugging/building though VS.Net while each night NAnt would build a version to be used by the testing group/QA.

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