Re: [Nant-users] Advantages of NAnt

Hearn, Bruce wrote: One obvious consideration for going to NANT is how to manage your project container artifacts (project files and solutions). It can be tedious to manage both csproj and build files. To get around this, we use an xsl transform to convert csproj to build files. But to do this

[Nant-users] re: References and the Framework path

Scott’s message showing how to use the following reference was very helpful.   frompath="true" name="System.dll"/>   All the example Nant build files I had seen used this   Where would I have found this information on my own? Is there further

RE: [Nant-users] Advantages of NAnt

Scott, I introduced NANT into our development group about a month ago, and we now depend on it heavily. It's an excellent tool, and a pleasure to use. The truth is, I got sick of the .NET IDE's poor command-line build support, and its intermittent crashes that made "continuous integration" unat

Re: [Nant-users] Advantages of NAnt

Hey all, Yep, and one of the things that irks me about vs.net is its placement of various temp directories. It always creates obj dirs in the most random places (and I can't get rid of them since it locks the files). BTW. There is a VS.Net addin for doing pre/post build events that let you run pr

[Nant-users] Advantages of NAnt

Kishore, You're correct that you can build a complicated project just fine in Visual Studio .NET. NAnt gives you significant new capabilities at very little cost. When you build using NAnt, you can: - Kick off calls to external processes (such as email, the file system, or an automated unit test

RE: [Nant-users] Support for .NET Compact Framework

Title: RE: [Nant-users] Support for .NET Compact Framework Can someone tell me what is the advantage of using Nant to build the assemblies rather than using the devenv.com using the he solution file. I can see that it is helpful if one does not have Visual Studio.NET. But are there any othe

Re: [Nant-users] Support for .NET Compact Framework

Scott Hernandez wrote: hope to get to this patched later this week. We will probably need to support a config file and maybe even a config task. I'm not sure whether you would want to specify the target framework via a external config file, or via information in your build file. What do you think

[Nant-users] Can't build HelloWindowsForms

I seem to be having trouble building vb projects in general, so I tried the HelloWindowsForms project and it too fails. So I know I must be doing something wrong. I've unzipped NAnt added the NAnt\bin directory to my path and am able to run nant.exe. When I try to build the HelloWindowsForms