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NAnt

NAnt is an XML-based free build tool for .NET applications. If you are a Java developer, you are probably familiar with Ant (http://ant.apache.org/). Ant has become an essential tool for almost any Java-based development. Developers have come to like Ant in favor of the build capabilities available in Java development tools. Based on the success of Ant, NAnt is an open source project that provides the capabilities of Ant to the world of .NET. Similar to Ant, to use NAnt, developers are expected to write a build file for their applications that contains a set of tasks (which can have dependencies on each other). When the NAnt build system is invoked, very similar to the “make,” the tool compiles and/or executes the application. A key benefit ...