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TSS Article: Managing .NET Development with NAnt
Although Visual Studio .NET has excellent support for writing code, organizing project files and compiling applications, it lacks tools for effectively managing distributed development, testing and deployment of the application. This article looks at NAnt, an open source tool which fills in those gaps and provides powerful new tools for project management.
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A must for any project that plans to make it to deployment...
About a year ago our team set out on their first .net project. Most of our team members came from the java side of the world and were quick to find a better way to compile and build our project than to bank on Visual Studio for our day to day build needs.
We were looking for something like Ant and stumbled on Nant.
An opersource build utility on the likes of Ant.
Amongst the main reasons for us to use Nant these were the main:
1. Understand what happens below the hood
2. Compile different modules directly from source code
3. Since the team was working on the .sln file, the same was screwed up almost daily because of the poor integration between VSS and Visual Studio.NET
4. Since we were using an older version of visual stuio that used the older framework 1.0.x, we found it difficult to move to the new framework without paying a license fee for upgrades
Nant solved it all for us and with a scheduled build process every night, we deployed our beta in 7 months and are goign live in another 2 ;)
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One suggestion
Could you please make the page's title more meaningful? Not only "TheServerSide.NET -", but also the article name such as "Managing .NET Development with NAnt". As you know, it will make my browser's bookmark better.
Thank you
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TSS = The Suck-up Side??
What is this - the Microsoft suck-up site? The first two sentences of your article have nothing to do with a discussion of nant. Do we have to preface any mention of OSS by grovelling before the temple of MS, and conclude with the assurance that MS is, in fact, working on a 'real' build tool to replace nant?! IMHO, Visual Studio.NET is clumsy, bloated, slow and buggy - I hope we will soon see some viable alternatives, and some respectable writing on this site!
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Thanks for reading
Please note that in the first sentence, I specify that Visual Studio .NET is "their" most complete and powerful IDE to date. The reader is left to draw their own conclusions about its place in the pantheon of other IDEs; this article was not about VS.NET's relative merits.
Secondly, it has everything to do with NAnt in so far that a great deal of developers using Microsoft technologies have historically used only their IDE's build tools or make/nmake. Therefore, in order to bring those people around to using NAnt, I had to talk about where they were coming from and what was missing.
Thanks for reading the site; I hope my future columns are more to your taste. How did you like the NUnit article?
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Face difficulty by NAnt
Hi NAnt Guru,
I face difficulty during using the NAnt.
1)don't know how to check out by Cvs
<target name="checkout" >
<cvs-update
destination="${cvsDir}"
cvsroot= "${cvsRoot}"
password="${cvsPassword}"
module="cs"
verbose="true"
failonerror="true"/>
</target>
I don't real understand the 'module' attribute
2) more imporatant, I can't compile by <solution>. In fact, I don't know how to config the build file.
In my solution, there are 5 projects:3 are console application, 2 are web application.
Hps is a web project, P1,P2,P3 are console application, and will refer to Hps.dll.
App is another web application, also refer to Hps.dll.
<target name="compile" >
<solution configuration="release">
<webmap>
<map url="http://localhost/Hps/Hps.csproj" path="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Hps\Hps.csproj" />
</webmap>
<projects>
<includes name="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Hps\Hps.csproj" />
... ...
</projects>
</solution>
</target>
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