• Automating ASP.NET building with NAnt

    In my drive to sort out my development processes there are a few things I want to do. Top of my list is proper automated testing and creating automatic documentation.

    Doing these steps every time I compile my site (or application) will add a lot more steps, so I thought it would be better to learn how to automate the build process first.

    I'd heard that NAnt was the tool I should be using, but I found it a little bit overwhelming.

    NAnt is a program that follows a list of instructions in an XML file called a build file. These instructions are used to do a series of tasks like the following: …