NAnt and MSBuild

[irasmith]

A short bit ago I read about MSBuild in the June MSDN magazine article.

 

I was wondering if anyone out there could provide some insight into NAnt and MSBuild having used both of them?

 

Not looking to start a debate or anything of that nature. What I am after is just some insight into what others think that have used both of them.

 

I personally have not used either before but I am possibly looking to utilize one of these tools in the near future and have begun my information hunt about them.

[mskeel]

If you're using VS2005 then you can get MSBuild scripts for free I believe. With other IDE's such as SharpDevelop they use NAnt. I think the big thing that NAnt has over MSBuild (correct me if I'm wrong) is build events where you can auto exec tasks such as NUnit on successful build automatically. But if you're using CruiseControl.Net you can do tasks with MSBuild easily too.

[irasmith]

Thanks for the insight into the two products. I'm not fully sure yet which I'll start with, and I may end up trying them both in order to find the one that suits me the best.