Last time I talked about how to nest existing elements in your custom NAnt tasks.  Now that you've had a good look at that, and Jacob's custom task, there's only one other thing to cover in this subject: a new type.   Types end up looking a lot like a new task, but throwing this all together should be a lot of fun. Last time, I ...

If you follow the Atalasoft Blogs by whatever means, and you're reading this, it's quite possible you've also read Jacob's blog post about extending NAnt.  If you haven't already, go check it out since he's covered a huge amount of ground related to what I'm going to show in this and subsequent posts.  In fact, I'll assume you've ...

Working as a Build Engineer for about 9 months, I've had the opportunity to push NAnt build scripting to the limits. Our DotImage product is made up of both managed and unmanaged code, third party libraries with .NET wrappers, code that sometimes differs from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 (both x86 and x64)  and a slew of other complications. In ...

I will be doing a presentation on build automation using CruiseControl and NAnt at the Western Mass .NET Users Group meeting on May 6th at 6pm. The presentation will cover the basics of CruiseControl and NAnt as well as developing custom tasks to stretch this already flexible framework even further.