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    Does your build talk to you?

    We have a fairly automated builds at telerik.  You keep everything in VSS, and the moment you need a build, you just check-in your latest changes and launch the build script.  The build runs on our integration machine and produces the final deliverables. Now the build might take some time for a few of the products (I wish VSS was not so darn slow!).  I get the build results and the log of the NAnt scripts by email, but sometimes that is not fast enough.  The answer to my problems came when I switched to Miranda as my IM client.  Miranda has a lovely...
    September 09, 2005
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    NAnt, the tool of the year

    I am using and learning .NET since my coming to telerik.  That would be more than a year.  If I had to pick a single tool that has been indispensable throughout that time, I would choose NAnt.  It is a build automation tool with an XML based syntax, similar to Apache Ant.  It has a host of useful tasks, that can make the building of a .NET assembly a piece of cake.  NAnt has a sister project -- NAntContrib.  It packs some Windows specific tasks, that are not directly NAnt related: IIS virtual directory manipulation, VSS file operations, etc. *ant tools are not just build...
    July 04, 2005