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.Net applications without Visual Studio

I am interested to know about people working with .net application buildings using MSbuild, NAnt or similar tools. What are you using, why are you using it instead of VS IDE?

I like to use different editors quite a bit, and I'm going to switch to using something that can allow me an IDE for free.

Thanks!

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I don't know anyone who uses NAnt or MSBuild instead of an IDE. Everyone I know uses this or that, uses these tools in support and in addition to the IDE. This does not mean that you cannot write .NET code without an IDE, such as VS, Mono or SharpDevelop, but they will save you the world of pain along the way.

In addition, NAnt is no longer being developed or maintained. The last beta was something like two years ago. I would not recommend using it, although I know many who swear by it (and we should even use it here for some legacy projects).

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Believe me that without an IDE you are wasting your time and it’s a real pain!

if you think that visual studio is expensive, you can try express editions or switch to MonoDevelop or sharpdevelop

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You do not need to use a different IDE to use a different build mechanism.

Not using an IDE is really a waste of performance. You can use sharpdevelop or monodevelop , although if you do not want to use Visual Studio.

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I wrote build scripts for my project in both NAnt and MSbuild, and I prefer NAnt or a hybrid of the two.

I am still using VS; however, if I want to do auto / night builds or do more than just build, I found that using NAnt makes things easier. Plus, developing your own NAnt tasks is a pretty simple task when you get used to it.

I try to use Hybrid MSBuild and NAnt when working with ASP.Net projects. When this is the case, I will use NAnt to invoke MSBuild and transfer the project file to handle compilation, and then use NAnt for everything else.

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