Managing .NET Development with NAnt

Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog - NAnt Starter Series Well, for the last 2 months I have been using Mutt as my primary email client, and I have not missed gmail at all!! I spend the majority of my day inside a shell based environment, and a large majority of my workflow/tooling has been heavily modded to allow me to do the majority of my computer related activities from a shell. I edit all my code in vimI manage keychain entries using the command line clientsI have a easy to customize automation/expansion library that allows me to add new shell automation tasks easilyFor the rare times that I use twitter, I use a vim plugin for that!I compose blog entries in vim

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Designing a Build System with NAnt NAnt is a very, very powerful tool. I have previously written about what it does, but I've never really written about how to use it. Like most powerful tools, know how to use it correctly is more important than knowing it exists because you can develop some pretty bad habits if you use it incorrectly. It is easy to fall in love with NAnt's power. You can do everything from checking out source code, creating the AssemblyInfo.cs file, build the code, unit test the code, build documentation from the code, install the code, and finally check the code back in from a single script that is very, very short and simple.

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Practical .NET2 and C#2: An introduction to MSBuild - The Code Project - Book Chapters Download source - 6.23 Kb Content Introduction The .NET 2 platform is delivered with a new tool named msbuild.exe. The .NET Buffet : Enterprise Library Configurat... In my first article on Enterprise Library configuration, I talked about how to build your own "root node" in a configuration file. We also discussed how to use the ILinkedNodeService to reference another configuration node from within your custom configuration section, and went over some details as to how the code worked in relation to the configuration manager tool. I provided a downloadable code example that I will use again in this post. Before I get started, I wanted to point you to the tool that myself (and many others) use to get our VS.NET code into such nice HTML format - it's called CopySourceAsHtml by Colin Coller.

How to transfer data to an Excel workbook by using Visual C# 200 This step-by-step article describes several methods for transferring data to Microsoft Excel 2002 from a Microsoft Visual C# 2005 or Microsoft Visual C# .NET program. This article also presents the advantages and disadvantages of each method so that you can select the solution that works best for your situation. Overview MSBuild Task Tutorial: Label SourceSafe Project - The Code Project - C# Programming Introduction While attempting to automate my build process using MSBuild, I have been unable to find a MSBuild Task to label projects in Visual SourceSafe. So, I decided to roll my own using C#. Since you are reading this, you are probably aware that MSBuild is the new build platform from Microsoft.

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MSBuild Overview MSBuild introduces a new XML-based project file format that is simple to understand, easy to extend, and fully supported by Microsoft. The MSBuild project file format enables developers to fully describe what items need to be built as well as how they need to be built with different platforms and configurations. In addition, the project file format enables developers to author re-usable build rules that can be factored into separate files so that builds can be performed consistently across different projects within their product. The following sections describe some of the basic elements of the MSBuild project file format. Items