The coding blog of Alastair Smith, a software developer based in Cambridge, UK. Interested in DevOps, Azure, Kubernetes, .NET Core, and VueJS.
Jean-Paul Boodhoo put together a very clear and concise introduction to NAnt back in 2006. It’s helped me no end converting a couple of my projects from Visual Studio Ctrl+Shift+B/MSBuild to NAnt today; I heartily recommend it as an introduction to NAnt. You can find the index to the series at http://blog.jpboodhoo.com/NAntStarterSeries.aspx.
Also worth checking out is NAnt Builder. I’ve got the trial version for now, but I’m seriously considering buying a copy; it makes working with NAnt’s XML-based makefiles much more pleasant. The only thing holding me back is a couple of usability issues that I will report to the developers soon (e.g., Ctrl+Space brings up the Intellisense for the current tag, but also inserts a space character into the file). At £25 (it’s currently on special offer at $50), though, it’s quite the bargain.
Next up is to convert the projects’ unit tests to NUnit and work those into my build files… Oh, and I should have an update on my message passing problem relatively soon, too :-) That, and a question about file encodings that’s been troubling me for about a month now.